Is there a way on the Windows Phone to access the users mobile number? Is it possible to gain this information by asking permission or possible having the user sign in via a Windows Live Account to gain the information? I wanted to see if there is a solution other than using Twilio in order to verify a phone number via text message. I'm working specifically on Mango now but would be interested if this would be possible in Apollo as well.
Unfortunately this is not supported.
To gain this information you will need to ask the user to manually for their phone number. This is to stop their phone number being retrieved by any app which requests it, which could then lead to spam/selling of the phone number (to name a few scenarios)
Considering that this is a security limitation (not a hardware/software limitation), I doubt very much that this security conscious decision will be revoked for Apollo (Windows Phone 8) and access to the phone number will be granted to any app that wants it.
You can retrieve contacts with mango.
See : MSDN
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I want users to be able to buy tickets via Windows Phone application and do not want to use web browser for these purposes. The ticket price may be different.
Is it possible to process payments via Wallet app or integration with certain processing systems is required?
Also please suggest the best practices for purchasing process within Windows Phone app.
This isn't that accurate but, you can use a paypal address creator and a webbrowser component.
try to do this (needs another server :( - try a free one )
http://webdesign.about.com/od/ecommerce/a/create-a-paypal-shopping-cart.htm
What I need to happen is that the user enter his domain/username/password as usual, but also enter an additional token, that I can somehow intercept during the login process, authenticate it, and allow the login or not. So, effectively, the user logs in only if Windows allows it, and this secondary authentication process allows it.
Does Windows provide support for this? Some mechanism to implement this?
All modern versions of Windows (since XP) have varying degrees of native support for two-factor authentication. You aren't very specific in your requirements but if you only need local workstation authentication (meaning that a domain user needs 2FA to log into a specific PC) then you can do this very easily with any of the Yubikey products. Their $20 USB token can be associated with a user on a workstation using their free software and using built in Microsoft controls.
If you want Active Directory domain-level authentication then you are going to need a product like Authlite to authenticate users. Basically, you roll out a simple .MSI to all resources via GPO and you can either centrally enroll users OR users can enroll themselves. Key pairings are stored in Active Directory Application partitions and all works very seamlessly. Works with 32bit or 64bit Windows all the way up to Windows 8/Server 2012. Currently per-user costs for Authlite are $48 total with no recurring costs. Each user would need a USB or NFC token.
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I want to send info between a desktop/laptop/tablet app and Windows Phone. One possibility is to send data to the SkyDrive account and have the other end pick it up from there. Is this feasible? What I have in mind is the "Windows 8" app running on the desktop, laptop, or tablet allowing the Windows Phone app[s] to send data to its account. Is this possible, such as by providing the Windows Phone app with the Skydrive login info, or...???
From all the other questions you've posted around this query, it sounds like you want to put a mechanism in place to communicate between a Windows 8 app and a windows phone app. I would recommend you look at building a service to handle the communication instead of trying to leverage mechanisms that weren't designed for what you want to achieve.
In direct answer to the this question, though, you can probably achieve it in this manner, but what happens if the user deletes the file you create?
So, SkyDrive is unique to a user, not a device. This means if your application is running on more than one device you can use SkyDrive as a shared, unified storage option. Not just for files but also for application settings. There's an SDK for every platform, not just MS.
Here's what you need to consider.
The roaming API in Windows 8 puts information in a protected area of SkyDrive. As a result, the user cannot delete or screw up the files stored there. To that end, using SkyDrive as a shared location (like you are asking) doesn't have this benefit. The user can screw with your files or delete them - and wreck your app. There is no such thing as protecting your app files in SkyDrive (at this time).
Specifically, to your question:
The authorization model for SkyDrive requires a token that cannot be practically cached for any app. Also, you cannot cache credentials because you never get the credentials in the first place - you only get the resulting token. Listen, you would violate every possible best practice if you //asked// the user for their username and password and stored them. Please do not do this.
The final answer is this: an app on multiple devices can use SkyDrive as a shared storage solution for files and settings (like XML files) - but the developer needs to understand the risk and mitigate that (mitigation might be easy for your app). The user, on every device, would need to sign in and grant each application access to it folders. And, that's it.
Is there any way of getting the "Windows Live Anonymous ID" from a PC based on the users e-mail-adress, logged in Windows-account, registry, Zune, currently usb-connected phone or else?
I'm not sure what you mean by "Windows Live Anonymous ID", but if you mean the Windows Live ID that is associated with the device, then no there is no way to retrieve this from the device, or the other places you suggest. If you require a Windows Live ID from a user, you should ask them for it because a) it's polite, and b) they might want to use a different account for your application.
There is no way to query information on a phone from a connected PC.
Any such ability could be considered a security hole.
I have a product live on a network operators portal at the moment, it is integrated with the operators SMS/MMS messaging and billing interfaces. I would like to build a version of this application to run on Windows Phone 7 devices.
I'd like the application to run for all users but for users that happen to be on the network operator I've integrated with I'd like to offer them a better experience (direct operator billing and sending through the operators MMSC).
An alternative would be to limit the availability of the app to users with handsets on the operator (like the Android marketplaces that exist for the major cell network operators like Verizon and Sprint).
Is any of this possible on the Zune Marketplace for apps and/or on Phone 7 devices?
Thanks
To accomplish this I would suggest liasing with your network operator contacts.
You'll need access to the APIs which they have access to (and the public does not through the 3rd party SDK).
You may also want to ship an app with phones they supply also.