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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tombstone.

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Examples

  • Choose the Gothic Wedding and you'll be married by Dracula, who's rolled into the chapel in a coffin, amid the tombstoned setting of a foggy cemetery.

    Boing Boing: April 14, 2002 - April 20, 2002 Archives 2002

  • The importance of this dictionary is that it is persisted on your application's behalf by the Windows Phone operating system when your application gets tombstoned.

    The Windows Blog 2010

  • The point is that you don't have to undo everything in the activated event - you can be lazy - but you must ensure that your application can cope with being reactivated without being tombstoned.

    Site Home ptorr 2010

  • In the current implementation of the Windows Phone operating system, there are two cases where your application will be deactivated but not tombstoned:

    Site Home ptorr 2010

  • One of the finer points of the Windows Phone application model that has received less attention is the case where your application moves into the background and does not get tombstoned.

    Site Home ptorr 2010

  • You don't need to save these transient objects to disk as long as you expect your application to return from the tombstoned state.

    The Windows Blog 2010

  • The most important thing to remember about tombstoned applications is the simple fact that the user may

    The Windows Blog 2010

  • Your application will return from its tombstoned state and you will see the launching event, and then the DetailsPage (page 2) constructor.

    The Windows Blog 2010

  • And since reactivating an application really means starting a new instance of the application with some tombstoned information, the page that you land on - in our case page 2, the DetailsPage, is a brand new instance of that page.

    The Windows Blog 2010

  • A tombstoned application restores its transient state when it is activated.

    The Windows Blog 2010

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