PhoneApplicationService Class
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
The PhoneApplicationService class provides access to various aspects of the application’s lifetime. This includes management of the application’s idle behavior and management of the application’s state when it becomes active or inactive.
Assembly: Microsoft.Phone (in Microsoft.Phone.dll)
XMLNS for XAML: Not mapped to an xmlns.
The PhoneApplicationService type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | PhoneApplicationService | Instantiates a new instance of the PhoneApplicationService class. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | ApplicationIdleDetectionMode | Gets or sets whether application idle detection is enabled. |
 | Current | Gets the PhoneApplicationService object associated with the current application. |
| StartupMode | Gets the mode in which the application was started. |
| State | Gets the dictionary used for passing an application’s state between invocations. |
| UserIdleDetectionMode | Gets or sets whether user idle detection is enabled. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
 | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
| MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| StartService | This method is used by the underlying implementation of the PhoneApplicationService and should not be used by applications. |
| StopService | This method is used by the underlying implementation of the PhoneApplicationService and should not be used by applications. |
| ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Activated | Occurs when the application is being made active after previously being put into a dormant state or tombstoned. |
| Closing | Occurs when the application is exiting. |
| ContractActivated | Occurs when the app receives a modern contract activation. |
| Deactivated | Occurs when the application is being deactivated. |
| Launching | Occurs when the application is being launched. |
| RunningInBackground | Occurs when an app begins to run in the background. |
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