Resetting the Live Tile in Windows Phone

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Hamishwillee - Can you please tidy this article?

Hi Mohib

Thanks for taking the time to write this article. Note however that it is important to look at the article and confirm it says what you want before removing the Draft category - at the moment I can still see the text "Add categories below. Remove Category:Draft when the page is complete or near complete". Also you haven't added an Abstract and you've left that text in too.

From a technical point of view this seem useful, but a little more explanation would help. What does setting the URL actually do - I think all you're doing is resetting the background image to some prefixed image in this method.

Lastly, it is really helpful if you can add references to any articles you used. For example in this case, it would be great if you had link to Live Tiles documentation on MSDN.

Regards

Hamish

hamishwillee 05:51, 7 March 2012 (EET)

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This article explains how to Reset the Live Tile information to the default in Windows Phone 7, 8

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Platform(s): Windows Phone 7

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Created: mohib.sheth (06 Mar 2012)

Last edited: chintandave_er (16 Dec 2012)

Introduction

The ability to update the Live Tile in Mango is a really great feature. I have an application where I’m generating dynamic images and setting the live tile to an isostore:/Shared/ShellContent url. But, I have a setting that the user can use to turn on/off live tile updates. When turning it off, I initially couldn’t figure out how to reset the tile.

The trick is to use an appdata: url to refer to your original image. For example, if your standard tile image is called “background.png”, then you can use the following to reset it:

public static void ResetTile()
{
        StandardTileData newTileData = new StandardTileData();
        newTileData.BackgroundImage = new Uri("appdata:background.png");
        ShellTile appTile = ShellTile.ActiveTiles.First();
        appTile.Update(newTileData);
}

Note: If you have changed any other properties like the BackContent, you will want to reset them by setting them to “”. Passing in null will leave the values unchanged.

Summary

This is a simple method of updating your Application's Live Tile from a IsolatedStorage rather than from a web service.