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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Preserving & Restoring Application State for Silverlight Based Windows Phone Apps

Introduction

The application tenure on mobile platforms is not very long. Frequently, users have to stop doing what they are currently doing on their mobile device and take that all important call. As a Windows Phone platform developer, if you do not account for such scenarios, your product will not appeal to the users if it loses customer data or does not remember what you were last doing in that application. This can get serious for gamers as well, who would have to start the game from the beginning, if the game could not store progress.

When to Note Application State

It is important to realize that at certain events, it is critical to note the application state. The main events where preserving and restoring state is critical are: application launch (Launching),application activation (Activated)application deactivation (Deactivated) and application termination (Closing).

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