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Generating a secondary tile with image not showing image immediately

When adding a newly generated image to a secondary tile, it doesn't find it initially - why and how do I fix it? The full story Hello, I'm working on a Windows Phone application that creates secondary live tiles on the phone's home screen. Since…
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WP8: Fast app resume + secondary tile + MainPage = 2 instances

I'm having the same problem posed here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/wpapps/en-us/af8615e7-8e90-4069-aa4d-3c4a84a6a3d0/windows-phone-8-fast-app-resume-with-deeplinks?forum=wpdevelop I'm no C# or WP expert, so please bear with me. I have…
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How to pin seconadry tile to open text file?

How I can pin secondary tile like Microsoft Edge websites, with tile ID, action, and activaton on App.xaml.cs? I want to pin opened text file on my text editor. Update This is my code for Pin tile: string tileId; string path =…
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Translucent Live Tiles In Universal Windows Apps (UWP) on Win 10 mobile/phone

I have a UWP app in the Windows 10 app store (World Time Clock). This app lets user pin live secondary tiles that display text that updates every minute (to show the current time in different cities around the world). These live text tiles are…
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Can I trigger sleeping background trigger from secondary tile of UWP app?

I have this code for creation of secondary tile: var logo = new Uri( "ms-appx:///Assets/Square150x150Logo.png" ); var tile = new SecondaryTile( "TileID", "Tile Text", "ActivateChange", logo, TileSize.Default ); await tile.RequestCreateAsync(); then…
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How can I lock the screen from within the Windows 10 Mobile app?

I was searching through UWP API Reference and I didn't find any way how to Lock the device from within app or with Secondary Tile. And I am frustrated, because there is a proof that it can be done. I don't want to make any advertisements here but…
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How to create a SecondaryTile on Windows Phone 8.1?

I'm trying to create a Tile on the Windows Phone start screen. The following code used to work but now it doesn't. I didn't change anything. private async static void CreateTile() { try { SecondaryTile tileData =…
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error creating a Square310x310Logo tile when image is from web

I'm trying to create a secondary tile for a windows 8.1 application, i need this tile to contain images for all sizes and all of them come from internet. this is my code : string dynamicTileId = selectedItem.UniqueId; string sLogo =…
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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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Customizing Windows 10 Start Menu with Windows Customization Designer / StartLayout.xml and Secondary Tiles not showing image

I'm trying to setup a customized Start Menu layout for computers we are deploying to the field. We don't want to completely restrict them from using the start menu, but are just trying to setup the most common used apps/shortcuts right on the start…
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C# UWP app crashes if SecondaryTile Imagesources are not from Assets folder

Basically I'm trying to make an UWP app to create Custom Tiles on Start Menu. The SecondaryTile is working when the Tile Images are from Assets folder like this. Uri square150x150Logo = new Uri("ms-appx:///Assets/square150x150Tile-sdk.png"); Uri…
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Wrap text on secondary tile

I want to show large text (about 20 characters) on secondary tile, but on mobile screen and desktop Start menu text looks different (mobile text displayed without clipping). Is there any way to make text wrapping in tile on mobile screen? This is…
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How to freeze Secondary Tiles WP8.0

I'm trying to create a secondary tile, but I only want the stuff on the back of the tile to be shown. Is this possible when targeting WP8.0 devices? private void MenuItem0_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { StandardTileData…
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Secondary Tile with Icon stored in Application Temporary Storage

I am trying to create a SecondaryTile using a JPG that I extracted to temporary storage (). When I create a URI from this file I get an error from the constructor of the SecondaryTile class. The error message I get is very helpful, it says…
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How to prevent logo scaling for secondary tiles?

I'm creating a secondary tile and the only logo I have is quite small (32x32 pixels I think). This means the logo is scaled for the secondary tile and looks terrible: Is there any way to prevent the logo from being scaled so it looks more like a…
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