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Article: Windows Phone 7 Push Notifications

by Sgt. Conker

In this article I will explain how to use the Push Notification features of Windows Phone 7 using 2 very simple samples.

The push notification features of Windows Phone 7 enable you to push a message to a mobile device with 3 options.

• Tile notification – This lets you change the main application tile on the Start experience.
• Toast notification – This lets you popup a message on the device even if your application is not running.
• Raw notification – This lets you send raw data to the running application which you can receive via an event.

For this sample, we’re going to concentrate on Toast notification. While Tile notifications will be cool, we unfortunately can’t make use of them with the current build of the emulator.

As a teaser, here is the result we want.