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Windows Phone 7.5 - Using advanced tiles API

published 526 days, 12 hours, 17 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 527 days, 18 hours, 57 minutes ago
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 8:26:19 PM GMT Monday, January 09, 2012 1:46:05 PM GMT

There is not any doubt, the first thing you meet when you use Windows Phone are the tiles. These are the large squares on the home screen that identifies some applications and they are also a distinguishable character that make your Windows Phone unique.

As you know for sure, the tiles can be attached or detached from the home screen and some particular software can take advantage of double size tiles. While this is not a feature available to developers, in OS7.5, the tiles gained new features and a new set of APIs that you can use to enrich your applications. As an example you are now able to update your tiles from inside the application and you can use double faced tiles to improve information to the user. In this article I would like to explore these new features and show how to take advantage of them, while porting your software to the new operating system.

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tags: Windows Phone 7

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