First Look at Launchers for Windows Phone
In this article we will look at the various Launchers available for Windows Phone. Launchers are nothing but enablers to perform common task enabling to provide a common user experience across the windows phone platform. This does not return any data. The launchers available for Windows Phone are as follows Bing Maps Direction Task Bing Maps Task Connection Settings Task Email Compose Task Marketplace Detail Task Marketplace Hub Task Marketplace Review Task Marketplace Search Task Media Player Launcher Phone Call Task Search Task Share Link Task Share Status Task SMS Compose Task Web Browser Task In order to use these launchers, we have to reference the library using Microsot.Phone.Tasks; We will look at the following launchers and its usage Phone Call Task SMS Compose Task Bing Map Task In the earlier blog post , we had created a simple “ContactApp” application. We will add these launchers to them. Phone Call Task This task e