Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Background Transfer Requests

Transfer requests are represented by the BackgroundTransferRequest class. The BackgroundTransferService maintains a queue of background requests and is used to submit new background requests, remove requests from the queue, and retrieve active requests.

Submitting a background request can be done by creating an instance of the BackgroundTransferRequest class, specifying the request end points, and then adding the request to the BackgroundTransferService. The following excerpt shows a transfer request that downloads a file from a remote server to a location in isolated storage:

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BackgroundTransferRequest request    = new BackgroundTransferRequest(remoteUri, localUri)    {        TransferPreferences ...