Building a simple live tile whiсh refreshes from a timer

Question

Hi everyone. I am trying to build a live tile for my app. Live tile should just show some short text from the property I have inside of my application (let's call it 'Property'). I just want to show the text currently available if you do 'get' on 'Property', and refresh the text on live tile when some internall timer ticks (or just when I RaisePropertyChangedEvent, any of these 2 options will work for me). I tried to look for needed info on MS site but with no luck. Can you please point me to the needed title, or maybe just give the idea of how to do this?

Answer 1

use the TileUpdateManager class

var updater = TileUpdateManager.CreateTileUpdaterForApplication();
            var template = TileUpdateManager.GetTemplateContent(TileTemplateType.TileWide310x150ImageAndText02);
            updater.Update(new TileNotification(template));

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Answer 2

Thanks, will try it. But how to link text on live tile to text in property?

Answer 3

There is no direct link. You'll have to update the tile as Dave suggested when the property changes.

Answer 4

Thanks. So to sum up I'll have to create new tile (as far as I see it is declared as an xml) and pull TileUpdateManager each time I will need to refresh the tile.