Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Internal Workings of the ChooserBase.Completed Event

When subscription to the ChooserBase.Completed event occurs, the location of the subscription, in particular the class name and method name, is used as an identifier for the event subscription. This information is serialized to your app’s transient state, allowing it to survive application termination. When the system application associated with the chooser completes, your app is restarted, and the OS signals that a chooser has completed by invoking a static method. When the event subscription occurs again in your class, the subscription identifier is re-created and compared with the list of subscription identifiers for that chooser. If there is a match, the event handler in your class is called. ...