A while ago, SilverlightShow author Samidip Basu started an article series showing the 8 common tips & tricks towards developing real-world Windows 8 Metro apps.
And this week, Samidip continues with the 7th and before last article in which he's discussing how OData service could fuel CRUD operations from your Apps and how to have Push Notifications supported through your cloud service, thus feeding various Tiles & Toasts:
From the author:
Connected & Alive – one of key guiding principles of Modern UI Design Language that contributes towards the user experience provided by Windows 8 style Apps. How can the Start screen be lit up with customized content and innovative Tiles? How can Apps not be running, but yet appearing to have fresh data/content? How can one have Apps feel connected, even without network connectivity? Well, through the use of services that reside outside the Windows 8 App we are making. It is this outside partner to our App that often does some heavy lifting in processing logic to make the App feel alive & connected. It is important to understand how to leverage services to manage data and push back content to our mobile Apps. Let’s explore our options on XAML/C# stack ..
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