Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Alarm Registration

As previously stated, registering an alarm is done via the ScheduledActionService. When using the ScheduledActionService, each notification must be given a unique name, or an exception is raised when you try to add it to the service. In the following example, we avoid reregistering a notification by detecting whether a notification with the same name has already been registered. We then use the ScheduledActionService class’s Add method to register the alarm, as shown:

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Alarm alarm = new Alarm(alarmName){    BeginTime = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1),    Content = "A test alarm.",    RecurrenceType = RecurrenceInterval.None,    Sound = new Uri("/Sounds/Alarm.wma", UriKind.Relative),};if (ScheduledActionService ...