Working With Live Tiles in Windows 8 Metro App-Part 2 - by @rohitimaginativ
In my previous article, I explained the basics about tile as well as showed you how to send tile notifications step by step. In this article, I will show you another demo with another XML template, in which the notification will include an image along with the text. Also in this article, I will tell you how to clear the notifications.
First of all we need to have a new image(150*150) which will be used as a tile notification.You can get the image here. Now open the same project which we created earlier for the first part. Comment out all the codes that are there in the click event of the button created. Insert the image in the root folder of your project and then refresh the solution explorer. Do not forget to include that image in your project.This time we will use “TileSquarePeekImageAndText01” template for tile notification.
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