WP Silverlight 8.1 App - Reminder does not launch app when touched
I'm having trouble getting a reminder notification to start my app after I tap it. Through the MSDN step-by-step guide and documentation found HERE , I know that if the user does not touch any of the buttons (snooze / dismiss), but touches the popup itself, the Uri defined in the reminder should be open inside the app. However, once I do that, not even the application itself is running, let alone the Uri specified.
To make sure the problem is not my application, I created a new application and copied the exact code found on the page above and while it schedules the reminder schedule, after it pops up, touching it only makes it disappear but does not launch the application, but also specified Uri (which exists, yes).
I have already searched a bit here and although I found a couple of questions similar to what I am asking ( like this one ) it relates to WP 7 and I am having problems with WP 8.1.
The user in the aforementioned question figured out on his own that the popup app needs to close in order to launch it in the specified Uri. However, even so, nothing happens to me, both on the emulator and on the device. I even removed it from paused / previously used apps, but still nothing happens.
I also found this , but no one answered and I don't have enough comments to comment on his question as to whether he found a solution: /
I am using VS 2013 Professional Update 3, Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit, Windows Phone 8.1 SDK and emulator and Nokia Lumia 620 with Windows Phone 8.1 on it. My Apps are Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1. If anyone wants, I can link to the binaries for the test application I created, but this is indeed a copy and paste from the tutorial from the first link I mentioned.
If anyone could help me with this, I would appreciate it again because I feel like I am missing something really small and stupid, but cannot figure out what. Other than that, it just looks like a bug in WP 8.1.
Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is already a resolved question, but as you can see, I tried to find answers and couldn't ...
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Just wanted to tell whoever found they were struggling with this problem, that I - sort of ... solved this problem. I contacted Microsoft Developer Evangelist who told me that this feature has been removed from the 8.1 API. He refused to admit that this was simply a mistake, although he does agree with the fact that Uri's property still there is confusing. I'm not sure if to believe him or not on this matter (I still think it's a bug), but at least I figured out that the problem was not mine.
In the end, the only viable solution was to convert the entire project to WP 8.0. Since Visual Studio doesn't let you do this just by editing the project file, I had to manually copy all the files into the new project. Fortunately, there were no major problems with this. The "go to URI" behavior now works fine!
Hope this helps someone :)
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