Background tasks in Universal AppsNico Vermeir

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21/10/2014

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Agenda• Background tasks?

• Types

• Constraints

• Debugging

• Q&A

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Background tasks?• IBackgroundTask

• BackgroundTaskBuilder

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Adding a BG task• Add runtime component

• Add class with IBackgroundTask

• Add Declaration

• Call RequestAccessAsync()

• Register task

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Triggers

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Conditions

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Types Triggered

Geofencing

Push

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DEMO TIME!

Nobody likes slides anyway…

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Constraints

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Op batterij:

WP only constraints

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Debugging• Debug location toolbar

• Launch background task from VS

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Q&A

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