Chapter 3. Fast application switching and scheduled actions
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Just like any other operating system, an application on the Windows Phone starts up, runs for a while, and in the normal course of things, the application eventually exits. In other multitasking operating systems, an application can be moved to the background when the user switches applications. While in the background, the application will continue to run in lower-priority time-slices. The Windows Phone OS is a multitasking operating system, but puts limitations on background operations. When a user switches applications, the running application is paused, and system resources are disconnected from the process so they can be freed up for foreground applications. A dormant application might eventually be terminated if the operating system needs to allocate additional resource to the foreground application.