How to turn on vibration on Windows Phone

This tip shows how to vibrate the device for a specified period using the VibrateController class.

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Tested with

Devices(s): Nokia Lumia 800, Samsung Focus Flash

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Compatibility

Platform(s): Windows Phone 7.5

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Created: influencer (12 Sep 2012)

Last edited: hamishwillee (30 Nov 2012)

Overview

The VibrateController class can be used to vibrate the device for a specific period. This can be useful for acknowledging a button press if visual cues alone are not enough (for example one of my apps that has a 'copy clipboard' button did not have a visible reaction so I added a short vibration to notice the user that the tap was successful).

This code snippet is all that is required to vibrate the phone for 100ms:

using Microsoft.Devices;
//...
VibrateController.Default.Start(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100));