Monday 29 July 2013

Microsoft Push Notification Service

The Microsoft Push Notification Service in Windows Phone is an asynchronous, best-effort service that offers third-party developers a channel to send data to a Windows Phone app from a cloud service in a power-efficient manner.

The process of registration is very similar to the rest of push services. The app requests a push notification URI from the Push client service, and then it sends it to your cloud service.
When you have info to send, you use the notification URI to send a push notification to MPNS servers, and MPNS routes the push notification to your app.

Depending on the format of the push notification and the payload attached to it, the info is delivered as raw data to the app, the app's Tile is visually updated, or a toast notification is displayed.
MPNS returns a response code to your cloud service after a push notification is sent indicating that the notification has been received and will be delivered to the device at the next possible opportunity.
Also, in a response code, you can get information about the state of the device (Connected / Temp Disconnected / Disconnected). For more information: [1]

When communicating with MPNS servers, you have to send POST messages for each Windows Phone device to which you want to send a notification. You have to specify the appropriate notification type (Raw / Tile / Toast), the destination Uri, and the rest of information in a XML format.
If you want to send multiple notifications, you must create separate POST messages for each notification. This is one of the differences with GCM, where you can send multicast messages in a single POST request.


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