I need to create a timer that will send out an alarm (messagebox or some other UI that the user has to interact with). The alarm is long running (like and alarm clock). I have looked for a solution and keep getting info on push notifications, but I think having a webservice track and alert 1000 users alarms clocks would be the wrong way to go, not to mention that the user would have to have network connections. I don’t know about you, but my HD7 didn’t have a connection in WV this past weekend (or any weekend I would guess).
I read several posts here and still nothing. I built the same app on Android and iPhone fairly quickly, but on my “home” platform of c# I’m stumped.
Any help would be helpful.
This is now possible using Background tasks in WP7.5 Mango API. Please read upon this here – http://www.abhishekshukla.com/development/windows-phone-7-mango-background/