6. Get to Windows Phone 7.5 #5: Adding Background Agents

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Background Agents are a new feature in Windows Phone 7.5, that a developer can use to empower their application to run code in the "background" regardless of whether or not the application is running.

This is a radical development. Applications on Windows Phone can now deliver experiences that can dynamically perform operations in the background. There are a wide variety of scenarios that this can enable, from driving a live tile locally on the phone, to periodically updating a server application with location information, to periodically downloading new content from a web service in the background.

In this video, Alex shows you how to modify an existing application to take advantage of this exciting new feature.

Other videos in the series:

1. From XNA to SL XNA
2. Adding FAS to XNA
3. Adding FAS to a Typical Silverlight Application
4. Adding Secondary Tiles
5. Adding Background Agents <-- YOU ARE HERE
6. Using a Live Camera Feed 
7. Using Push Notifications with Secondary Tiles and Deep Toast 
8. Using a Local Database
9. Background Audio