Windows 8 Notifications: Scheduled Notifications

Hopefully, you’ve had a chance to review my previous post on Local Notifications as it sets the foundation nicely for taking the next step to scheduling notifications to occur at some point in the future – when the application itself may or may not be actually running.

Time-specific “local” notifications

Taking the step from a local notification to a scheduled one is pretty simple; a scheduled notification is more or less a local notification with a specific delivery time attached to it. Given that there is no guarantee that the application will be running when that time arrives, a scheduled notification can actually fire when the application itself isn’t running.

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