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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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Win8 Live Tile vertical image align

Is there any way to verticaly align an image of a live tile? The image i'm putting in the tile is to big for the tile and it shows only the center of the image but i would like to show the top. thnx in advance
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Custom live tile windows phone 7.8

I want to create a custom live tile. I just need to display a number with large digits (1 to 4 digits) in the center of the tile, no icon, no text or anything else and it should be possible to update the tile also. I have tried the default tile, but…
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How to resize image returned from URL for live tile

I need to re-size and image that I'm using to update a live tile in a Windows 8 modern app. I'm retrieving the image through a URL and the image is too large for the tile's size limit of 310 x 150. I have to do this for over 80 images so downloading…
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Windows Phone 8 - Update Tile image on Clicking the tile and dont open application window

I'd to update the image on a Windows Phone 8 live tile when the user clicks on it. I don't want to open the application's window just update the tile. Can this be done? If so how?
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make a live tiles from binary clock? WP7

A couple of day's ago I made a binary clock app. It works like this. Every time a dispacthertimer ticks it updates some image from one source to another. So I been reading about making your own tiles and found something called ree7 that sounds like…
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created live tile looks corrupt

am creating custom live tiles by updating the text in a 173x173 XAML control, then using writablebitmap.Render to create a JPEG. Finally, create StandardTileData, set the two images, and put them on the correct tile. Works most of the time. Actually…
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What are the parallel (equivalent) tiles of FlipTile, IconicTyle, CycleTile from WP8 in Windows 8?

What are the parallel (equivalent) tiles of FlipTile, IconicTyle, CycleTile from WP8 in Windows 8? There are a lot in Windows 8 and they seem static. Thanks!!!
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Somebody know how to use live tiles with Phonegap and Windows Phone 7?

I'd like to know how to load some live tiles from a JSON from an URL but I have never used that option, could somebody give an idea of how to do it?
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How to Update IconicTile & LockScreen defined by WMAppManifest.xml

I'm trying to create an IconicTile for Windows Phone 8. I've defined with VS2012 the type of Tile Template to TemplateIconic and added a Tile Title and two images for small and medium. If I pin my app to the start screen, I can choose between small…
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ShellTile.Create with FlipTileData throws InvalidOperationException?

I am trying to create a tile using FlipTileData in Windows Phone 8. I use this code: const string mainPage = "/MainPage.xaml"; ... Uri mp = new Uri(mainPage + "?" + "tileid=" + tileId, UriKind.Relative); …
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what are all the ways to update windows phone tiles?

Going through MSDN library and other forums, these are the ways to update the Windows Phone Live Tiles (afaik): Using push notifications, Background agents, ShellTileSchedule (to update tile's background images only). Are there any other ways to…
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How to use font glyphs on windows 8 tile?

I'm trying to figure out how to use a font glyph like the check box and check used in the windows 8 tile example from this page: The tile template catalog under the "Task lists" example at the bottom. I couldn't find much on how to get this to work…
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Is there a shared file location for foreground and background tasks?

I need to communicate a value between my foreground and background projects/tasks. Is there a shared/common folder where I could store values both can access? Or is it possible to pass an arg from the foreground task to the background task as it…
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create tile data in background agent wp7

What's a good way to create the bitmap needed to update a live tile in a background agent? In the UI thread, you use writeableBitmap class, but this does not work in the non-ui thread. There are many examples of tiles in background agent, but they…
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Update Secondary Tile On Click

How can I update my secondary tile without navigating to a page? I wish to use secondary tiles to ie. set WiFi/Bluetooth on/off.
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