Delayed Push Notification Service for Windows Phone

This is a multi part blog post the other posts in this series are: Overview – you’re reading this now.The push notification service – how to implement the delayed push notification serviceThe client library – not yet written.In this post I discuss push notifications, and share my web service which implements a delayed push notification.Push notifications are a web service that MS provides that can send a message to the phone. There are 3 flavors of push notifications:Raw notification: Raw bytes...

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PsychicDebugging - You can browse to www.google.com, but you can't ping it.

In my last message to the world I though I'd fixed my networking, but turns out I hadn't. Here's the state of affairs: IE; Chrome and Firefox work perfectly. ping www.google.com fails instantly with hostname not found nslookup www.google.com works From python socket.gethostaddr ('www.google.com',80) fails instantly. This had me stumped, I assumed the web browsers must be calling different apis from ping.  A few invocations of cdb, and I realized the apps that worked are all 32 bit. That was the trick, my 64 bit NSP catalog was also corrupted; and thus all 64bit apps couldn’t resolve networking.  ...

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Set a System Restore Point

Start -> Create a  restore point -> Create A few days ago my event viewer service failed to start, and I went on a crazy goose chase that was most unpleasant.  I suspect my life would have been better if I had a working restore point, so I'm sharing my wisdom with you: create a restore point now. Some surprising things I found on my journey: Eventlog not starting because The Authentication Service is Unknown (Error:1747) => Winsock Catalog corruption. netsh winsock reset should fix said corruption but didn't in my case. Rumor is when netsh winsock reset doesn't...

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