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How to create simple Background Agent in Windows Phone

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This article provides a minimal example on how to create Background Agents (Tasks) in Windows Phone. There is a more comprehensive example on Dev Center How to implement background agents for Windows Phone.   Introduction Windows Phone apps are made dormant when running in the background or when the phone is locked (to conserve device memory and battery life). If your application needs to perform processing when it is (may be) in the background you can use a background agent to run activities according to some schedule. Background agents are…

Windows Phone 8 Battery API

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The Battery API makes a nice addition to the WP8 SDK. I can see in the near future that some applications will display the battery metrics on a Live Tile or in the application that hides the System Tray. The Battery API is pretty easy to use: Get the Battery instance with Battery.GetDefault() Bind to the event RemainingChargePercentChanged. The battery properties are: RemainingChargePercent: gets a value that indicates the percentage of the charge remaining on the phone’s battery RemainingDischargeTime: gets a value that estimates how much time is left until…

Working With Share Link Task in Windows Phone 8

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In this article we will learn about the Share Link Task. This task enables the user to share a link from the app itself on various social media and other sharing platforms. It can be a very useful feature for promoting your app on various platforms. Let’s see how to use it. Share Link Task This is a kind of launcher provided by Windows Phone to launch the share screen from an app so that the user can share the link. The task can be customized with various properties for…

Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor

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Microsoft Pluton

The role of the Windows PC and trust in technology are more important than ever as our devices keep us connected and productive across work and life. Windows 10 is the most secure version of Windows ever, built with end-to-end security for protection from the edge to the cloud all the way down to the hardware. Advancements like Windows Hello biometric facial recognition, built-in Microsoft Defender Antivirus, and firmware protections and advanced system capabilities like System Guard, Application Control for Windows and more have helped Microsoft keep pace with the evolving threat landscape. Today, Microsoft alongside our…

Microsoft’s Chromium Edge browser is now officially available to test

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Microsoft is making its Chromium-powered Edge browser available to developers today. The software giant is releasing its Canary and Developer builds, offering daily or weekly updates to the changes that are coming to Edge. Both downloads are available on Microsoft’s new Edge insider site, and they are designed for developers to get an early look at how Edge is changing. Microsoft has focused on the fundamentals of browsing, reliability, and extension support for this early version of Edge built on Chromium, and the company is looking for feedback about the…

The Last Slice: challenge

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Beat challenge 1 (download the game, change the code) here. Then beat challenge 2. First five to beat challenge 3 win $10,000 USD each. No joke. Challenge 1 This is the first of three challenges for The Last Slice: A retro 8-bit video game that’s currently impossible to beat. Clone or download the code, install the prerequisites on your Windows 10 PC, open TheLastSlice.sln file with Visual Studio and run the game. You have the source code…change it any way you’d like to beat the game. The Prerequisites Here’s what…

Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub

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Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire GitHub, and that the company chose Microsoft partly because of CEO Satya Nadella. Business Insider first reported that Microsoft had been in talks with GitHub recently. GitHub is a vast code repository that has become popular with developers and companies hosting their projects, documentation, and code. Apple, Amazon, Google, and many other big tech companies use GitHub. Microsoft is the top contributor to the site, and…

The Invoke Smart Speaker Brings Microsoft’s Cortana AI to Your Living Room

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Cortana virtual assistant already integrates into Windows 10, works on iOS and Android, and will start showing up in cars soon, it’s ready for your home with Invoke. It’s good for work, good for play, even has a cool name. The new Invoke speaker, made by Harman Kardon, is more or less a direct copy of the Amazon Echo – a tall, cylindrical speaker with a blue light at the top that glows when the speaker is listening to you. It can control some of your smart-home devices, set reminders,…

Microsoft Launcher review: A beautiful Android experience

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After Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft Launcher is the upgraded version of the Microsoft Garage project Arrow Launcher, and we covered the key changes that came with that upgrade last week. It’s free and can be picked up from the Google Play Store. After some heavy usage over the last few days, we’re breaking down what works, what doesn’t, and where Microsoft should take their launcher from here. As Microsoft Launcher gains more publicity, there have been some rumblings about how it doesn’t look like Windows 10…

Hey Cortana, open Alexa: Microsoft and Amazon’s first-of-its-kind collaboration

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I talk to Cortana every day — at home, work and on-the-go — to get information about my day, to set reminders so I don’t forget things, and to answer my questions. But I don’t just use one digital assistant. I also frequently talk to Alexa to listen to audio books or to add things to my shopping list. Because people use and interact with all kinds of products, we’re very excited to announce a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Amazon between Cortana and Alexa that will offer more choice, value and…

Microsoft’s Home Hub ambitions aim to crush Google Home and Amazon Echo

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In what might be the most exciting part of this whole project, Microsoft is working on bringing the connected "smart home" to Windows 10 with Home Hub. The goal is to make Windows 10 the central hub for all your smart home devices, including lights, doors, locks and more. With Cortana integration allowing you to use your voice to toggle and control the smart devices in your home, the picture for Home Hub becomes complete: it brings Windows 10 to the center of your entire home. Microsoft is building a…

Satya Nadella: Microsoft building the ‘ultimate mobile device’

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has again reaffirmed the company’s commitment to developing smartphones. Unfazed by its market share dropping beneath 1 percent, Nadella said Microsoft is planning a revolutionary “ultimate mobile device.” Nadella made the comments during an interview with the Australian Financial Review. He visited Sydney last week to address a local developers conference about Microsoft’s cognitive computing systems and Azure cloud services. Nadella outlined his plans for Microsoft’s future involvement with smartphones. He suggested the company has stopped trying to rival the established leaders in the field. Instead,…

Microsoft to launch new Surface PC at October 26th event

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Microsoft is holding a special Windows 10 and Surface event in New York City later this month. The software giant has started emailing out invites to an event on October 26th, and Microsoft is expected to make some Xbox-related announcements at the event, alongside new Surface hardware and some details on the company’s next Windows 10 software update. Microsoft’s event isn’t expected to be as large, or involve as much hardware. Surface-branded keyboards and a mouse have started leaking ahead of Microsoft’s event, and the company is widely expected to…