WinRT information: Could not initialize secondary tile with provided arguments.

Question

hi,

I am using windows Azure blob container to store all the images. here I am getting this exception:

WinRT information: Could not initialize secondary tile with provided arguments.

this is due to image urls format. how can I get that images from blob container from web to my local folder and how can I give that url.

this is my code for secondary tile :

private asyncvoidOnPinRecipeButtonClicked(objectsender, RoutedEventArgse)

{

varitem = (Appetizerstable)this.itemListView.SelectedItem;

varuri = newUri(item.ImagePath);

vartile = newSecondaryTile(

                    item.UniqueId, // Tile ID

                    item.Title,  // Tile display name

                    item.Subtitle,

                    item.UniqueId, // Activation argument

                   TileOptions.ShowNameOnLogo, // Tile options

                   uri    // Tile logo URI                    

);

 awaittile.RequestCreateAsync();

        }

                                

    

           

 

           

 

           

 

 

 

             

 

                                   

 

                   

 

 

 

                   

 

 

                   

 

 

 

Answer 1

Hi sarika,

It is not supported to use a image from web, Secondary Tile logo URI only support "ms-appx:///" or "ms-appdata:///local/". You could download the image and save to your local folder as you mentioned.

Take a look this link, must help you with saving the data to your local folder: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/how-to-guides/blob-storage/

--James

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Answer 2

hello Jameles Hez,

I have downloaded images from my blob container to my local folder. I am free from the above error but I am not getting image on the secondary tile.

this is the code I have written inside the click event

private async void OnPinRecipeButtonClicked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {

            var item = (Appetizerstable)this.itemListView.SelectedItem;
            item = (await appetizerTable.Where(i => i.UniqueId == item.UniqueId).ToCollectionAsync())[0];
            var blob = App.container.GetBlockBlobReference(item.ImagePath);
            StorageFile file;
            try
            {
                if (itemListView.SelectedIndex!=-1)
                {
                    file = await temporaryFolder.CreateFileAsync(item.ImagePath,
                       CreationCollisionOption.ReplaceExisting);
                    using (var fileStream = await file.OpenStreamForWriteAsync())
                    {
                        var outputstream = fileStream.AsOutputStream();

                        //Hither
                        InMemoryRandomAccessStream decstream = new InMemoryRandomAccessStream();
                        System.IO.Stream netstream = System.IO.WindowsRuntimeStreamExtensions.AsStreamForRead(decstream);
                        //Hence
                        Stream saveStr = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
                        IOutputStream winStr = System.IO.WindowsRuntimeStreamExtensions.AsOutputStream(saveStr);
                        //  var bufferstream = outputstream.AsStreamForWrite(UInt16.MaxValue);
                        await blob.DownloadToStreamAsync(winStr);

                        saveStr.Position = 0;
                        saveStr.CopyTo(fileStream);

                        fileStream.Flush();

                    }

                    // Make sure it's an image file. 
                    var uri = new Uri("ms-appdata:///local/" + file.Path);

                    var tile = new SecondaryTile(
                            item.UniqueId,              // Tile ID       
                            item.Title,                 // Tile display name
                            item.Subtitle,
                            item.UniqueId,              // Activation argument
                            TileOptions.ShowNameOnLogo, // Tile options
                            uri                         // Tile logo URI
                        );

                    await tile.RequestCreateAsync();

                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                
            }
           

        }

this is the snippet.

Answer 3

Whats the size of your image?

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Answer 4

60kb

Answer 5

Ah, I'm so sorry for the no responsing, did you solved your problem?

I'd like to know the width and height of the image, basically tile images must have dimensions less than or equal to 1024x1024 pixels, have a file size of less than or equal to 200 KB. But it seems 60kb should not be any problem.

Besides, http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/secondary-tiles-sample-edf2a178 will give you the sample for how to set the secondary tile, hope this helps you. You could also read your error message to know why we cannot set the image as the secondary tile.

--James

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Answer 6

You should call Dispose() for File Stream before use this file for tile.

Add:

fileStream.Dispose();

After:

fileStream.Flush();