Pluralsight – Windows Phone 7.5 Integration Features

In this course, we explore the powerful integration features of Windows Phone 7.5, which let our applications blend right into the phone’s incredible native experience. Specifically, we take a deep dive into the hot new live tiles, we explore Push Notifications and the way they can greatly enhance both our application’s usefulness and attractiveness, and we look at how we can significantly improve our app’s discoverability by leveraging the phone’s search integration features using AppConnect and Bing Search

 Table of content

Live tiles

• Intro and contents
• Tiles overview
• Anatomy of a tile
• Hands-on : tile config
• Designing tiles
• ShellTile APIs
• Hands-on : deep link setup
• Hands-on : creating a tile
• Hands-on : retrieving a tile
• Hands-on : updating a tile
• Scheduling tile updates
• Hands-on : scheduling tile updates
• Takeaways

Push notifications

• Intro and contents
• Push notifications in WP7.5
• Push notification setup
• Creating the service
• Hands-on : demo overview
• Hands-on : creating the service
• Registering the phone app
• Hands-on : channel setup
• Hands-on : channel binding
• Sending notifications
• Hands-on : demo features
• Hands-on : building the request
• Hands-on : the desktop client
• MPNS response
• Hands-on : examining the response
• Constraints, best practices
• Takeaways

AppConnect search integration

• Intro and contents
• Bing Search and AppConnect
• Hands-on : Bing search
• Registering for search
• Creating the Extras file
• Hands-on : demo overview
• Hands-on : registering for search
• Launching from searches
• Hands-on : mapping deep links
• Hands-on : handling querystrings
• Hands-on : testing Bing search
• Hands-on : Place and Movie searches
• Hands-on : navigation considerations
• Takeaways

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