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sunjinbo
sunjinbo

Reputation: 2187

Universal Apps still support scheduled task agent?

I want to know whether Universal Apps still support scheduled task agent on WP8.1, if not, what is the substitute?

Upvotes: 1

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Malutek
Malutek

Reputation: 482

Windows Phone 8.1 in Universal App project is based on Windows Runtime, which differes in quite many scenarios from good old Silverlight. Here you can find a decent summary regarding differences between Silverlight and WinRT (for a Windows Phone developer) - MSDN about WP Silverlight compability

Article specifies that Silverlight 8.1 WP application can no longer define it's own ScheduledTaskAgents. So what can you do? I think this article is a pretty good place to start with - it covers the basics of handling scenarios when you want to use background tasks in your WinRT 8.1 WP application - MSDN Background Tasks in WinRT.

Upvotes: 4

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