Marketplace Dashboard upcoming update

I'm hard at work on v1.4!  I discovered a few bugs on background and live tile updates, and the app wasn't saving the number of days back to go.  My biggest addition is reading full download stats!  It can show you how many paid vs. trial per app now.  Also, lots and lots of stability and optimization fixes throughout.  Should be ready any day now!

UPDATE: Well, obviously this hasn't made it out yet.  I've had it through certification several times now and I'm waiting for it again.  They seem to have trouble testing it since it requires an active Marketplace account (you'd think they could manage!), and then my last submission somehow made a "forbidden" function call all of a sudden.  Grr...  Hopefully better news soon!

Clearing the back stack in Windows Phone

With the new Windows Phone 8 Fast Resume feature (so cool!), I had a problem when launching the app from a secondary Live Tile.  Since the tile had a deep link, it would resume the app and open the deep link.  Sounds fine, but if the user then clicked the Back button, it wouldn't exit (as expected).  Rather, it would go back to where they were the last time they were viewing the app!  It turns out the quick fix is to run through the back stack items in NavigationService.  Of course, simply calling GoBack() is a bad idea since that would mess cause a flicker at the very least, so instead notice the new method: RemoveBackEntry().  This clears the last item from the back stack without showing anything!  A simple while loop can now remove all the back entries:

while( NavigationService.CanGoBack ) NavigationService.RemoveBackEntry();

Voila!