Integrating Push Notifications with SharePoint Data in Windows Phone 7 Applications

The Microsoft Push Notification Service in Windows Phone offers third-party developers a resilient, dedicated, and persistent channel to send data to a Windows Phone application from a web service in a power-efficient way. In this unit you will learn how create push notifications in SharePoint using event handlers.

Hands-On Labs

  • Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Notifications

    Windows Phone 7 applications can use Windows Push Notification Services to notify users of custom events. Windows Phone 7 applications integrating with SharePoint can use notifications to alert users about changes in SharePoint data sources. In this lab you will learn how to create a list event handler that will send Push Notifications to a Windows Phone 7 application. You will alow learn how to register for notifications and bind the phone and application to a toast notification.

  • Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Tile Notifications

    Windows Phone 7 applications can use Windows Push Notification Services to notify users of custom events. Windows Phone 7 applications integrating with SharePoint can use notifications to alert users of changes in SharePoint data sources. Tile notifications can display a count of events such as the number of changes to a SharePoint list.