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Background Transfer for Windows Phone or Windows Store apps

Refers to the process of performing a background transfer within Windows Phone or Windows Store apps.

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UWP Background Transfer exception 0x80072EE4 after Windows Update 1703

I have a Windows Store app with Background Transfer to download contents and it is working well until now. However, a few customers report that after they update their PC to Creators Update (1703), the downloads stop working giving an error like…
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BackgroundTransferService with POST method and Parameters

I want to upload a file (VideoFile) to server through BackgroundTransferService. My problem is, I also want to send 2 parameters along with File (POST request). So, is it possible to send parameters along with File upload while using…
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Windows Phone 8.1 - BackgroundTransferStatus for BackgroundUpload

I'm using the BackgroundUploader to upload images/videos from the CameraRoll to a storage service. This is a WinRT app on Windows Phone 8.1 This works great until there are a large number of files to be uploaded. I was expecting there to be issues…
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Background downloader windows 8 Multiple files

I'm having some files that I need to download on app startup (first run). I am using the Background Downloader in windows 8. This is how I use it: BackgroundDownloader downloader = new BackgroundDownloader(); List operations =…
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Is there ability to get uploading BackgroundTransferRequest's result?

I'm using BackgroundTransferRequest in WP8 application for uploading a file to my server. The server receives the file and send a response back with some useful info regarding uploaded file. How can I get this info? It seems there's no API for that…
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BackgroundUploader.getCurrentUploadsAsync() is returning most of the transfers I've ever done

I'm working on a Metro app that will upload and download some files. MS provides a couple…
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BackgroundDownloader.CreateDownload method not working in windows phone 8.1

I'm trying to download a file with this code: private async void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { try { Uri source; Uri.TryCreate(txbUri.Text.Trim(),UriKind.Absolute, out source); StorageFile destfile = await…
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Windows Phone 8 custom hourly range Live Tile update frequency

When I was searching for an answer to this, I only encountered developers looking for ways to update their apps' live tiles more and more frequently. I want the opposite, sort of. See I'm developing a weather app, and I want it to update every hour…
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Improve the performance of Windows Phone Background Transfer

I am building a Windows Phone 8 app which uses the background transfer agent to download assets (i.e. images, audio etc...) that are used in the app. A typical scenario for the app to download would be made up of: 600 individual assets a total of…
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Uploading files with Windows Phone BackgroundTransfer service to an MVC3 site in a RESTful manner

I need my Windows Phone application to be able to upload audio files to my MVC3 site, using the BackgroundTransferService available in Mango. As one possible solution, I can: Map a route to my controller: public override void…
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BackgroundTransferService: what are some of the details of its operation?

I kick off 5 uploads (of varying size) via the BackgroundTransferService. I have the following questions about the way it works: It seems that on the emulator it does 2 uploads at a time. Is this how it works on the actual device? Can I…
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UpoadOperationProgress is returning bytessent = bytestosend instantly

After I got my uploadoperation to complete successfully, I am now trying to get some progress UI. right now here's my code including the progress callback and the handler for that callback. public async Task…
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Windows Phone Background Transfer Policies Transfer Limits

On Background file transfers for Windows Phone it says: Limits Maximum outstanding requests in the queue per application (this includes active and pending requests): 25 But it seems that the Limit is 5. (According to my debugs and heaps of…
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Windows Phone Mango background transfer service policy

While going through a WP7.5 background transfer service policy, one can read the following: The background transfer service does not run on non-simultaneous voice and data networks including the following: 2G, EDGE, Standard GPRS So if a…
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BackgroundDownloader with background apps setting turned off

I have a UWP Windows 8.1 application which uses BackgroundDownloader to load pictures. I need to be able to download even when application was suspended. The application runs on Windows 8 and Windows 10. In Windows 10 it is possible to disable…
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