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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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Windows Phone 8 ShellTile TargetUri

One Quick Question: I want to navigate to settings(cellular..) from an secondary livetitle. The Problem is the targetUrl for the Shelltitle(selectedShortcutsMenuControl.TargetUrl) in my app looks like this: "cellular", and thats not an valid Uri…
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Update all tile sizes in WIndows 8 app with periodic notification

I have an application framework (in JavaScript) which dynamically sets the URLs for the live tile feed. In my code I have something like below, and this works for a wide tile, but when I resize the tile to "medium" (or "small") the live feed/update…
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How to Add Secondary Tiles In Application

I have the need to have 8 Secondary Live Tiles in my application. I was wondering what the best way to go about doing this would be. I would like to have each tile in a horizontal StackPanel, so I can have text to the right side of the tile as well.…
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Update live tile count and add +1 to count every time the Live Tile is updated

I have this little code here that is executed in my ScheduledTaskAgent of my Windows Phone app, if this code is executed then there is some data to show. I have made an comparison before this code and I executes only if there is new data. Now I…
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Can we determine where a Live Tile was tapped?

I was curious if it's possible to determine, in Windows Phone 8, where in the area of a Live Tile was a tap made. So if a Live-Tile is tapped in the lower right, would we be able to somehow determine this when it passes it's function to the app?…
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Windows Phone 8 Live tiles Text & image update

I created an app for windows Phone 8 and want to implement Live tiles in my app. I don't even know anything about live tiles. I tried many examples from the forums and all. But all are in the form of buttons(Like Flip, Cycle) If i click Cycle Button…
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Is it necessary to fill in the appxmanifest with all tile resolution images?

The appxmanifest has entries for developers to fill in four different tile resolution images for each kind of tile (small, medium, wide, large), the different resolutions are: scale-180, scale-140, scale-100, scale-80. From what I can tell if the…
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Windows 8 Live Tile Update Scheduled.

I would like to create a scheduled live tile update to update a tile whether the app is running or not. I would like the schedule an update every 24 hours. What would be the best way to do this either to use Secondary Tile, Tile Notification or…
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Is it possible to use tile templates with secondary tiles in a Windows Store App?

The title is the whole question: Is it possible to use tile templates with secondary tiles in a Windows Store App? Also can secondary tiles animate? It looks like the answer is no, even in Windows 8.1 but maybe I am just missing something. Here is a…
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How do I know if a live tile update "failed"?

I am using live tiles for my application. The XML used to update the tile is dynamically generated and sometimes the update fails because of the content (I don't control what is being displayed in the live tile, I get that from webservices). I used…
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Windows Phone 8: Updating Live Tile data when app is closed

I'm developing a tidal data app which makes use of a live tile. The tile's data needs to be updated at the beginning of each day (i.e. 00:01). What would be the easiest way to do this? I've had a good look at Microsoft's page 'How to implement…
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Windows 8 app tile periodically update when it's not running

I've a app called 'drumtime' installed on Windows 8. It's tile is being changed/updated on every about 10 seconds. This couldn't be done with Background tasks I guess because a background task needs 15 minutes to be executed. But even if the app is…
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Detect primary tile size in Windows 8 app

I am wondering is it possible to detect primary app tile size (small or wide) within code using c#? I want to implement live tiles functionality and I need to know which size is the app tile to select appropriate tile template.
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Live Tile not working due to error in setting image?

The App.xaml.cs page of my app contains the following method. public static void SendLiveTileUpdate(Record rr) { string imageUristring = "ms-appdata:///local/" + rr.Id.ToString() + ".jpg"; XmlDocument wideTileXml =…
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Set secondary tile image from programatically created writeable bitmap

I'm desperately trying to set a writeable bitmap as the source of a secondary tiles image. I think I'm almost there but it refuses to work. Can anybody see what I'm missing? I would be VERY grateful! I'm creating the bitmap using: var bitmap = new…
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