Delayed Push Notification Service for Windows Phone
This is a multi part blog post the other posts in this series are: Overview – you’re reading this now. The push notification service – how to implement the delayed push notification service The client library – not yet written. In this post I discuss push notifications, and share my web service which implements a delayed push notification. Push notifications are a web service that MS provides that can send a message to the phone. There are 3 flavors of push notifications: Raw notification: Raw bytes - ignored if your app isn't running, sent to your app if it's running. Tile notification: Manipulate application tile, worth it's own blog post. Toast notifications: If your app isn't running pop up a toast giving a message to the user. An interesting detail about the push notification web service is how the web service is addressed, and how the phone is identified. I'd expected something like this: But instead you get the more elegant: // doesn't wor