Triggering certain actions such as sending notifications or alerts when a device enters or leaves an area is often referred to as geo-fencing. The geo-fence, the boundary of the area of interest, can be dynamic like a radius around a school or around your own device, it can be pre-defined such as a neighborhood, city or county, or it can be an area defined and digitized for a specific purpose. In this post, we will walk through an end-to-end scenario that will look at the Bing SDS to store and query geo-fences, the tracked device, the Azure Mobile Services as the hub to process the tracked locations and send notifications as well as a Windows Store app to catch and display tile and toast notifications…READ MORE
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