Tile Templates
Your live tile cannot contain arbitrary XAML (or HTML). Its appearance is tightly controlled by an XML template. With such a template, you choose one of several predefined layouts and, depending on the choice, you can specify a few lines of text and a few images. Although this means your customization possibilities are limited, it also means that it’s easy to give your app a live tile with a standard look-and-feel, including animations.
For example, Listing 24.1 contains a method that can be invoked at any time to update an app’s tile with hard-coded content. The call to CreateTileUpdaterForApplication returns a TileUpdater instance that exposes a variety of interesting behaviors. For now, this listing just calls its Update method ...
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