is there a way to find out the location without using GPS on the Windows phone 7. It’s okay if ts approximate, as i want to get the city (not the precise longitude and latitude).
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is there a way to find out the location without using GPS on the Windows phone 7. It’s okay if ts approximate, as i want to get the city (not the precise longitude and latitude).
Use of the location API within Windows Phone 7 is described in this collection of MSDN articles. Pay special attention to the section in Location Programming: Best Practices about the right level of accuracy. When setting the GeoCoordinateWatcher to default instead of high accuracy it is optimzed for power-usage. In practice this means it will only resort to GPS of there is nothing else available.
All use of the location API will require you to ask the user for permission to use their location. The only way to get around that (if you really want to) is by using one of the tricks described in other answers.