Developing for Windows 8/WinRTSession 7

Kevin Stumpf

Live Tiles and Background Tasks

Agenda

• Live Tiles Catalog• Live Tiles implementation• Background Tasks• Q&A + Homework Assignment

• Please download: http://sdrv.ms/YAPY4n

Live Tiles Catalog

• http://bit.ly/TileCatalog• Square Tiles (150x150)• Wide Tiles (310x150)• Tiles can have multiple faces

Background Tasks

• http://bit.ly/BackgroundTask

Homework Assignment

• Develop an application which reacts to certain important system triggers and updates the Live Tile’s text with a description of the system trigger which caused the update

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