You could be accustomed to receiving various notifications on your smartphone, for example, after obtaining a new e-mail message or after publishing a post on your profile in social media. So do you think it is possible to add such a feature to your application as well and receive notifications in circumstances related to your project, such as when a new message has been received or when a user has been followed by another?
Of course, this is possible. However, adding support for push notifications requires a bit more development effort because preparing both the server side and client side is necessary. The client-side solution is presented and explained in the current recipe, but the server-side implementation is out of the scope of this recipe.
In this recipe, you will learn how to use Windows Push Notification Services (WNS), including generating necessary configuration data using the Live Services site as well as preparing the implementation to obtain the...