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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ever since the arrival of the Preview for Windows Phone 8.1, we’ve been documenting frequent ...

A new feature of Windows Store apps, utilizing background tasks will not only help circumvent some challenges from the Windows Store app lifecycle, but they can keep your app responsive to what's ...