Windows Phone : ShareStatusTask and ShareLinkTask

In this post I am going to talk about ShareLinkTask and ShareStatusTask that come with the Windows Phone Mango update of the developer tools.

Note: ShareLinkTask and ShareStatusTask do not work on the emulator. So you will need real Mango device connected to Facebook,Windows Live, etc. in order to test them.

ShareLinkTask

Basically ShareLinkTask launches a dialog that enables the user to share a link on the social networks like for example Facebook, Windows Live, etc.

To start using it you will need to include the following namespace:

Namespace:  Microsoft.Phone.Tasks 
Assembly:  Microsoft.Phone (in Microsoft.Phone.dll) 

All you need to do in order to this launchers in your application is:

Step1: Create an instance of  ShareLinkTask,

Step2: Set desired propertied: Title, LinkUri, Message.

Step3. Call Show():

ShareLinkTask shareLinkTask = new ShareLinkTask();

shareLinkTask.Title = "WindowsPhoneGeek";

shareLinkTask.LinkUri = new Uri("http://windowsphonegeek.com", UriKind.Absolute);

shareLinkTask.Message = "The ultimate resource for Windows Phone Development.";

shareLinkTask.Show();




ShareStatusTask

Basically  ShareStatusTask launches a dialog that enables the user to share a status message on the social networks (Facebook, Windows Live, etc.).

To start using it you will need to include the following namespace:

Namespace:  Microsoft.Phone.Tasks 
Assembly:  Microsoft.Phone (in Microsoft.Phone.dll)

All you need to do in order to this launchers in your application is:

Step1: Create an instance of  ShareStatusTask,

Step2: Set desired propertied: Status.

Step3. Call Show():

ShareStatusTask shareStatusTask = new ShareStatusTask();

shareStatusTask.Status = "Current Status: Developing WP7 apps.";

shareStatusTask.Show();




That was all about using ShareLinkTask and ShareStatusTask in a Windows Phone Mango application. You can find the full source code of the demo here: