I've been trying to add an out of process background task to my project to update my App's live tile. The task needs to make a database call to get some data, then process that data to send out a f...

Im coding a web application that should be pinnable to start menu and should updating a text information by the setup. Just like there: MSDN IE11 Reference In Windows 8.1 desktop and phone it is w...

We have a .NET but non-Metro app, built in Visual Studio 2010. We would like to show a nice 512x512 (or whatever) image for our app on the Desktop. We do not need Live Tile functionality, we just n...

i am using the code below to create a live tile, based on an UI element. It renders the uiElement on a WriteableBitmap, saves the bitmap + returns the filename. This method is run in a windows phon...

With Windows 8.1, the background color for desktop application tiles on the start screen are no longer grey but colored. It appears to me that the background color of the tile is selected by Window...

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 wan...

In windows 8 metro style app, how to update live tile while app is not running ? And the live tile start to run when OS system begin to start. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsappdev/archive/2012/0...

I'm creating a live tile on the device with the following code: ShellTile tile = ShellTile.ActiveTiles.FirstOrDefault(); StandardTileData newTileData = new StandardTileData { BackgroundImage = ne...

It seems to me, that my background task is not working / triggering. Is there any way i can debug them, or test it with an integration test. This is an example background task: public sealed cla...