Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

To-Do List Scheduled Task Sample

This section looks at creating a to-do list app that uses periodic tasks in conjunction with a scheduled task agent. The app allows the user to enter a to-do item, which is stored in a local database, and which can be pinned as a live tile on the start experience. We look at using a periodic task to update the status of the to-do item live tiles.

TodoItem

To-do items are represented by the TodoItem class, which contains three properties: Id, Description, and DueDate. DueDate is of type DateTime and indicates when the to-do item should be considered overdue. TodoItem objects are persisted using LINQ to SQL. The TodoItem class is decorated with a Table attribute, and its properties with Column attributes (see ...