Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 13 - What is Tombstoning?

Mobile phones have very limited resource as compared to a desktop PC and hence it is very difficult to run multiple applications simultaneously. Also, suppose if multiple resources run simultaneously, it will eat up the battery life and make your phone stop working after certain period of time.   So what to do? To overcome this situation, tombstoning comes into picture. It saves the current data and then moves the app to the background or closes the app after saving all the data. This calls as Tombstoning. In this post, we will discuss on the same.   Index - Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial   Background Let's take a case study. Suppose, you are filling up a form in your Windows Phone application and at that time a call came and your application will pushed into background or you accidently pressed the home button present in your phone hardware. Due to this, you will lose all your entered data.   So, how to resolve this issue? We can tombstone our...