The Windows Phone SDK is a very powerful development platform that lets developers create great applications with the Silverlight framework. The recent upgrade of the SDK to version 8.0 (Windows Phone 8) brings about a host of changes that makes some generic tasks easier to perform. One of the areas that saw an improvement in Windows Phone 8 is the Location API. In previous versions of the windows phone SDK, getting a user's current location was a bit untidy, but the current technique for doing this has been polished and made a bit more direct. The new technique uses Microsoft's ASYNC method call, which improves performance of applications while gaining access to a user's location. Let's dive in and take a look at this new way of accessing the current location on Windows Phone 8.


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