I'm planning to develop windows phone app which can send my PC clipboard to the phone. I want to use push notifications for this. I found this paragraph on the msdn windows phone documentation library
After your Windows Phone client app has registered for notifications, you can send notifications to the app. Typically, this is done with a web service that keeps a collection of URIs to send notifications to, but it also can be done with any app that can send messages to the Microsoft Push Notification Service.
This seems to imply that I don't need to set up a web service. Is there some way I can send push notifications directly from my app to MPNS?
Yes, your desktop app can communicate directly with MPNS.
Use the same code as for the web service.
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Hi we have developed an application using IBM MobileFirst Studio 7.0.0,In order to send notifications for Android and IOS Platforms we used GCM and APNS respectively and everything worked fine coming to Windows Phone 8 application we are planning to go with MPNS(Microsoft Push Notification Services) concept.
As per MPNS is concerned we are planning to go with Authenticated push services which can give us unlimited access to send notifications, we require a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate keystore for the same.
The keystore can contain several certificates, one of which is the certificate for authenticated push notifications to MPNS.
To use MPNS concept we need certificate which is authenticated push notifications.
How to generate that certificate and do we need any web service to develop MPNS Push Notification for Windows Phone 8?
as part of my research followed this link.
In the link you have found, you will see how to generate a SSL Keystore and certificates - here. Once you have the certificates, login to Windows Development center and upload the certificate there. Instructions on how to do this can be found in the following links:
Setting up an authenticated web service
Enabling no-quota push notifications
No-quota push notifications
Im working on a windows 8.1 project for a client, the app wont be on store.
I was asked to implement push notifications but from what i've read we need to register app on store to enable that funcionality.
Is there any other alternativo to push notifications or a way of getting them without having the app on store?
While working with Windows Phone Push Notifications, I got myself stuck in the part of creating the "cloud web service" to receive the negotiated URL and retrieve updates to the mobile device.Is it possible to create this Web Service without using Windows Azure services (I don't want to pay anything, I just want to push with my services to my apps)? And how can I create this Cloud Web Service.
I haven't worked extensively with Windows Phone 8.1. Check this webpage for Windows Phone 8 -
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh202970%28v=vs.105%29.aspx
You will get a URL for each device you want to get notification on through the app you create. Taking help from the above link, you can create a local server (Cloud Web Service) for testing push notifications for your test devices.
I have developed Windows Phone Silverlight application (support 8.0 and 8.1) for my client request. The client is goint to publish the application in WP app store, but first he must check on his phone if everything is OK with the application.
The application was developed with Visual Studio 2013, I've got developer account and own phone assigned to this account on which I have tested the application.
The question is, how can my client install the application on his own phone skipping windows app store? I have sent him builded *.xap file but he had a some problems with installation (Cannot install company application)?
You can submit your app to Windows Phone Store BETA. Your app will by certified quickly, and your client will be able to download it just like any other app from Store. The difference is that it will be visible and possible only for him.
Log in to you DevCenter account, click Submit App. Then, in App info section expand More options and select Beta. Then you can provide your client's mail.
I'm not sure, but I think that the name of the app should not be the same as the final version. So you can name it "My App Beta" to avoid future name conflict with the final version.
One more thing. When your app pass certification process, you have to send the link to the app to your client, because he won't get any notification.
I'm a new Windows Phone developer and I'm trying create push notification. I don't understand much about push notification, and have a couple of questions.
Push notification windows phone need cloud service,so can I use Google Cloud Service or only use Microsoft Cloud Service.
How to register URI from the Microsoft Push Notification Service?
You will have only two options here:
1)MPNS
2)WNS
If you are using WP8 then I will suggest to go with MPNS o.w. you can use WNS.
you can use MPNS directly by sending notification URI to server but for WNS you will need to generate secrete key and need to use Azure service.
You can use these steps to create server and WP8 App, if you are using MPNS as you are using WP8.
And about GCM you can not use it here.