Create live tile with URLs

Question

Hi i have developed a windows 8.1 app for my website. I have published some web pages on iis7 and have the URLS of the web pages. I want to create live tiles of those URLs , I know it can be done in setpollsURLs method in app.xaml file but how that i dont know. Can anyone help me please ? 

 public static void SetPollUrls(params string[] _pollUrls)
        {
            urisToPoll = new List<Uri>();
            foreach(string url in _pollUrls)
            {
                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(url))
                    continue;
                try
                {
                    urisToPoll.Add(new Uri(url));
                }
                catch (Exception)
                {
                    // The URLs need to be well formed. 
                }
            }
        }

Thanks in advance :)

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Answer 1

you url is returning a xml tile description? you can set it in the manifest of the file

or use StartPeriodicUpdateBatch method  on the TileUpdater class;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.notifications.tileupdater.startperiodicupdatebatch.aspx

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Answer 2

Hi Dave,

I want to know if its possible to do from the method i have posted in the question. I want to add 5 URLs in the list in the method which will set the poll URLs for my app. And yes the URLS are returning XAML description.

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