Part 2. Core Windows Phone
Now that you understand the Windows Phone platform and how to use Visual Studio and the other tools in the Windows Phone SDK, it’s time to learn the low-level details of how to build mobile applications. Part 2 of this book introduces concepts that are brand new to Windows Phone, as well as concepts that have been adapted to operate within the phone’s limitations.
We start in chapter 3 with a discussion of fast application switching and fast application resume, Microsoft’s names for the battery-saving technologies that allow a dormant application to be quickly restored when a user switches from a foreground application to a background application. Chapter 4 introduces technologies, such as background agents, that ...
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