C H A P T E R  2

Windows Phone Execution Model And Multitasking

In this chapter, you are going to examine the Windows Phone execution model. First, you will examine the navigation of pages in a Windows Phone application. Then you will focus your attention on how the Windows Phone operating system manages running applications.

The recipes in this chapter describe the following:

  • 2-1. Navigating the Windows Phone application's pages
  • 2-2. Passing parameters through pages
  • 2-3. Using global defined variables
  • 2-4. Using the State dictionary to store the application's global variables
  • 2-5. Managing tombstoning
  • 2-6. Managing tombstoning in XNA
  • 2-7. Implementing multitasking
  • 2-8. Scheduling alarms and reminders
  • 2-9. Managing Obscured and Unobscured ...

Get Windows Phone Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial