[Q] New To WP7 Dev: Retrieving Location data in cloud

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Its kinda very dump that I need to register and pay to ask a question on the M$'s AppHub forum.

anyways. Xda buddies can help me instead.

I am new to WP7 Development, I understand how push notifications works on WP7. What i am wondering is that if the cloud service has the ability to poll location service from the phone.

Hi,
Firstly, you don't need to pay to post on the AppHub forums.

But back to your question .
If I understand you correctly, you want your cloud service to be able to pull in the user's information?Someone else might know a way of retrieving the phone position from your own cloud service, but as far as I know, that's not possible. What you can do is push it from the phone to the cloud. So, from your app, you can send the location information to your web service in the cloud. A couple of things to note is that the application requirements documents requires you to let the user know that you're taking their location information (amongst other things, so you should read that to make sure your app can be added to the marketplace). Another thing is that the user has to be running your app in order for it to send the details to your cloud service.

Therefore, it is not possible if the live tile of my application is able to do an update based on the location of the phone, since in order for the web service to know the phone's location, the application must be running, correct?

Yes as far I as I know, that's correct. Your app has to be running in order for your service to know what the user's location is.