Creating a Custom Audio Player Agent
An audio player agent can be created by selecting the Windows Phone Audio Playback Agent project type from the Visual Studio New Project dialog (see Figure 34.1). This produces a new project that includes a class that derives from AudioPlayerAgent.
FIGURE 34.1 Visual Studio Windows Phone agent projects.
When you link to an Audio Player Agent project from your main project, a BackgroundServiceAgent task definition is added to your main project’s WMAppManifest.xml file, resembling the following:
<Tasks> <DefaultTask Name="_default" NavigationPage="MainPage.xaml"/> <ExtendedTask ...
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