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Interaction with the built-in applications in Windows Phone is achieved through the Launcher and Chooser APIs. These APIs are contained in the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks namespace and expose their functionality through tasks that provide a consistent and seamless experience for your application users.
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You can find the application capabilities and hardware requirements for Windows Phone at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj206936(v=vs.105).aspx#BKMK_Softwarecapabilities .
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In reality, most would consider the demise of your application to be anything but. It is simply shut down, and you are returned from whence you came. I stand by the adjective, as all things of this nature are relative, and I don’t get out much since I’ve been writing this book.
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No. There is no way to prevent the user from changing the values provided by your application.
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See the Windows Phone Toolkit at http://phone.codeplex.com .
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And don’t call me Shirley.
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To within experimental error. Number of experiments conducted by author: Zero. Sarcasm Detected: Yes.
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Asynchronous Programming with Async and Await (C# and Visual Basic): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh191443.aspx
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CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter (Microsoft Press, 2010)
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Lalonde, L., Totzke, D.R. (2013). Appointments and Contacts. In: Windows Phone 8 Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5903-9_6
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