Windows 8 and windows phone 8 developer story by Anders Bratland. Keynote speech at NETwork 2012 http://network-ua.com/

15. Allows your app to always resume no matter where it’s
launched from:
If your app is in the back stack then we will resume it
If it’s not then we will launch a new instance

16. Not enabled by default. Why?

19. demo

21. Windows 8
Windows Store Apps Desktop App
View
XAML HTML / CSS
Controller
C C#
Model
JavaScript HTML C
C++ VB JavaScrip
t C++
WinRT APIs
System Services
Communication Devices &
DirectX & Media
& Data Printing
Application Model Internet
Explorer
Win32
Kernel
Windows Kernel Services

23. demo

25. demo

28. demo

30. demo

36. demo

39. Apps do not get notified when
they are getting terminated

40. //Register for the Suspending event and call Current_Suspending when received
//Handle the suspending event and save the current user session using WinJS sessionState
//We are getting suspended
}
//Register for the Resuming event and call resumingHandler when received
{
//We are getting resumed, in general do nothing
}

45. protected async override void OnLaunched(LaunchActivatedEventArgs args)
{
if (args.PreviousExecutionState == ApplicationExecutionState.Terminated)
{
// Do an asynchronous restore
await SuspensionManager.RestoreAsync();
}
if (args.Kind == ActivationKind.Launch) {
if ( !string.IsNullOrEmpty ( args.Arguments ) {
// handle arguments
}
}
else if ( args.Kind == ActivationKind.ShareTarget )
{
}
// …
}