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Live tiles are the entry point of Microsoft Metro apps, and can be updated with information to display to the user in an easily digestible format.

Live tiles represent Metro apps in the Start screen. They are the primary method through which the user will launch Metro apps, but they can also surface information and notifications directly through the tile itself, making it a dynamic representation of apps even when they are not running.

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Click on LiveTile doesn't show/run my app

In a background agent I create (or update) one of application live tiles and this works as expected. Problem is that when I click this live tile screen flickers but my app is not "restarted" nor "shown". What's wrong? I attach small part of the…
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Can live tiles be updated by taking values from the app without firing it in WP7?

I have live tiles in my app and is not a web service app. Live tiles are updated on exiting of the app. So if the user does not open the app for a day it does not get updated. Can I update without having to go to a server?? Can Tiles take the…
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Why can't I see the listbox in the PNG file?

What I want I want to display a custom live tile in WP7.5, a textblock and a listbox with 4 strings as its listitem. So I create a image with all of the stuff and display it as a background of the live tile. What I Code //prepare the…
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How can I flip an image-button inside a Windows 8 Metro live tile?

I have some image buttons inside a Win8 Metro live tile (in a grid), and Metro makes it easy to animate the whole tile, but not items inside of it. What's the easiest way to do a "flip" animation on individual image-buttons (or at least images)…
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Windows phone 7 live tiles and push notification

i need help. I have done push notification for my app. I want the tile to change to the image that the push notification sends. How do i do this. All this is to be done in one app itself. The examples that i saw in msdn and other websites show some…
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windows phone push notification on tiles

i would like the app that i have created on wp7 to display alerts on the live tiles. I was going to use push notifications to do this. So, whenever there is an alert, the app will produce a push notification and then the live tile would display the…
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Setting BackBackgroundImage with local file for live tile WP7

this might be really simple and I've tried searching but I haven't been able to find a solution. My problem is quite basic. I am having trouble setting the BackBackgroundImage uri path to a local static png that I've made. Here is the code I am…
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Push Notifications not working for live tiles created programmatically

I have a push notification service which will update the live tile periodically. It works fine when I add a live tile to start menu using 'pin to start' option. But when I created a live tile in the App itself, the tile gets added to the start menu…
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Custom ShellTile

Is there a way to create a custom ShellTile that displays at start (after user pins our app)? I would like to resize and reposition a count number (label), but I can't find a way to do that.
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Update live tile when exiting app - any restrictions/best practices

I have an app where I would like to update the live tile when the user leaves the app. First question is if this is a bad idea? If the user starts the app 20 times per day will this be a bad idea or in any way affect the background service? Second…
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How to stop a Live Tile schedule after upgrade

I have a Windows Phone 7 application that currently uses Live Tile Schedules to update. The new version of the app uses a background task to update the tiles. However after upgrading the app on a phone, if a tile schedule is already running on the…
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How to set WriteableBitmap back color for a live tile in Mango?

I'm trying to dynamically build a live tile. It runs fine thanks to some SO suggestions and I have this code: WriteableBitmap wbmp = new WriteableBitmap(173, 173); TextBlock text = new TextBlock() { FontSize =…
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Add timeout to livetile code?

First post here, sorry for starting with asking questions. In my Windows Phone 7 app I have a working livetile that is beeing triggered by a background agent. But how can I modify the code so the httpwebrequest timeouts after 10 seconds? Thanks in…
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Render a "User Control" to an Image File

I followed the approach explained here to generate customized live tile appearance for my application. The only problem this approach has is that you need to build the entire set of controls programmatically via c# code. I tried adding a User…
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different data for different live tiles in the same app?

I'm trying to create an interface where a user can create data that streams to the application tile, the "secondary" tile, and/or a "tertiary" tile. What's happening, however, is that when I update one of the three tiles, ALL of the tiles update…
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