Vibration in Windows Phone 7 Via WCF Service Messaging

Introduction

Today, in this article let's learn another good concept in Windows Phone whereby communicating with WCF Service to get some pop up message.

Question: What is Vibration?

In simple terms "It is the notification sent from phone to the user when some expected operation is observed. It provide touch or sensed feeling".

I think we all are now good to go and implement this interesting concept!!!

Step 1 : The complete code of IService1.cs looks like this.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Web;
using System.Text;
namespace Vibrate_WCF
{
// NOTE: You can use the "Rename" command on the "Refactor" menu to change the interface name "IService1" in both code and config file together.
[ServiceContract]
public interface IService1
{
[OperationContract]
string On();
[OperationContract]
string Off();
}
}

Step 2 : The complete code of Service1.svc.cs looks like this.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Web;
using System.Text;
namespace Vibrate_WCF
{
// NOTE: You can use the "Rename" command on the "Refactor" menu to change the class name "Service1" in code, svc and config file together.
public class Service1 : IService1
{
public string On()
{
return "Whoomp!!...Vibration is Enabled";
}
public string Off()
{
return "Whoomp!!...Vibration is Disabled";
}
}
}

Step 3 : The complete code of Web.Config looks like this.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
</system.web>
<system.serviceModel>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior>

<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>

<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
<serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
</system.serviceModel>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

Step 4 : The complete code of MainPage.xaml looks like this.

<phone:PhoneApplicationPage
x:Class="Vibration_Controller_Application.MainPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="480" d:DesignHeight="768"
FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"
SupportedOrientations="Portrait" Orientation="Portrait"
shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True" xmlns:toolkit="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Toolkit">

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>

<StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">
<TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" Text="Vijay's Vibrate Application" FontFamily="Verdana" FontSize="22" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle" Text="Windows 7 Phone" Margin="9,-7,0,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}"/>
</StackPanel>

<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">
<toolkit:ToggleSwitch FontFamily="Verdana" FontSize="45" IsChecked="true" Content="On" x:Name="toggle1" Checked="toggle1_Checked" Unchecked="toggle1_Unchecked" Header="Vibration" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="110,31,0,445"
Width="325" />
</Grid>
</Grid>


</phone:PhoneApplicationPage>

Step 5 : The complete code of MainPage.xaml.cs looks like this

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
using Microsoft.Devices;
using Vibration_Controller_Application.ServiceReference1;
namespace Vibration_Controller_Application
{
public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage
{
// Constructor
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
static void on_Call(object sender, OnCompletedEventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Result);
}
VibrateController obj_Vibrate = VibrateController.Default;
private void toggle1_Checked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
toggle1.Content = "On";
toggle1.SwitchForeground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Green);
Service1Client obj_Client = new Service1Client();
obj_Client.OnCompleted += new EventHandler<OnCompletedEventArgs>(on_Call);
obj_Client.OnAsync();
obj_Vibrate.Start(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1000));
}
static void off_Call(object sender, OffCompletedEventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Result);
}
private void toggle1_Unchecked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
toggle1.Content = "Off";
toggle1.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Red);
Service1Client obj_Client = new Service1Client();
obj_Client.OffCompleted += new EventHandler<OffCompletedEventArgs>(off_Call);
obj_Client.OffAsync();
obj_Vibrate.Stop();
}
}
}

Step 6 : The output of the On Application looks like this.

Step 7: The output of the Off Application looks like this.

I hope this article is useful for you. I look forward for your comments and feedback. Thanks Vijay Prativadi.