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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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IE11 / Windows 8.1 live tile with photos

All: I'm trying to configure a website I administer to be pinnable in Windows 8.1/IE11 with a live tile. The first time I went through http://www.buildmypinnedsite.com and it's documentation and provided the RSS feed, I noticed with some surprise…
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Adding Text to Cycle Tiles (Windows Phone 8)

I'm writing an app whose sole purpose is to periodically download some images and display them in a live tile. I want to be able to update the tile with 4-8 images every thirty minutes or so, so I need to use a CycleTile. Downloading the images and…
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Local push notification to Win8 Live Tile running JS code inside app

I am trying to send updates to my app's tile. This works fine when the app is running. I can, for example, easily send a tile update notification to the tile when the user clicks a button. What I can't work out is how to update the tile when the…
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Any way to resize text on the back of Windows Phone 8 Live Tiles?

I'm using a Flip Template for my tiles. On the MSDN page the text is seen to wrap, as well as be a smaller size. This is not representative of behaviour I'm seeing in my live tiles. I can get a maximum of 3 lines, of large text, on the Wide live…
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Windows 8 Live Tile Background Agent Using C#

I am trying to update a live tile every so often on Windows 8 and need to do this even if the app itself isn't running. None of the notification options listed on this MSDN page are suitable, I want to poll system information like CPU temp etc which…
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Dynamic LiveTile - render a custom font TextBlock on LiveTile with background task

I'm having problems in rendering custom textblock with custom font resource on liveTile ? My project updates a live tile in background. but it should be personalized. Im using this code. but its does not woks, the text shows blank when i try to use…
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Background task is skipping schedule, updating every 60 min sometimes

I'm about to loose it soon... I have two apps with working background tasks that are updating the live tile. The data for the live tile is downloaded, parsed and then an image is created dynamically and used as the background for the live…
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Live tile inside windows phone 7 application

Is it possible to create a live tile inside our windows phone 7 application? I am asking the similar functionality as in AppHub app "...i'm a WP7!". Please provide me input, how i can achieve this functionality?
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Dynamic LiveTile - adding background image?

Working wth live tiles in my Windows Phone 7 app and it's working quite okay. I'm now trying to create a dynamic live tile and I can't get the background image to show up. When using the code below I only get a black tile. The text I add is shown…
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UWP tiles refreshing timeout

I created a very simple UWP app public MainPage() { this.InitializeComponent(); // In a real app, these would be initialized with actual data string from = "Jennifer Parker"; string subject = "Photos from our…
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Live Tile - Queu Notification - UWP - Windows 10

I implemented liveTiles on my uwp application, but in this moment I use: Windows.UI.Notifications.TileUpdateManager.CreateTileUpdaterForApplication().EnableNotificationQueue(true); to save my Tiles, but the problem are this queu only allow 5 itens.…
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Requests to /browserconfig.xml do not send session cookies?

I have little experience with Windows 8 and our organization does not yet support it but some end users have it. Users running Windows 8.1 and IE 11 have presumably created a live tile referencing our secure application. We are seeing user requests…
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Windows Phone startscreen tile with no title using Cordova/Phonegap build?

I'm building a mobile app for Windows Phone 8 using Cordova/Phonegap Build. Is there a way to hide the tile title Windows Phone uses for the app in the start screen? The tile icon I have to use has a white background and WP displays a white title on…
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Square Live Tile with image collection

How do I create 150x150 square live tile with image collection in Windows Phone 8.1? There seem to be no template defined however few apps like People have it.
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Can't use background task in Windows Phone 8.1 (the ID_CAP_NETWORKING required, but it's included in the manifest)

I need to update my Windows Phone application tile by downloading and parsing JSON. So I'm using Microsoft HTTP Client Libraries. And I've always got the exception Use of networking APIs requires the ID_CAP_NETWORKING capability to be defined in…
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