It will give an exception and will lead to crash. So if we try to create more than one secondary tile having the same uri. Note: One property of the Secondary tiles which are created through the above method is that each should have a unique uri.
ShellTileData– This data class is used to provide different properties to the tiles created through this method. By unique uri we mean that more than one tile can navigate to the same page but each should have different tag in the uri which will be explained in the further post.Ģ. It should be unique for each secondary tile. Uri – It is the Uri of any page within the application where the application will navigate to whenever user taps on this tile from start screen. The different parameters in the above method areġ. Whenever this method will be called the UI will navigate to Start Screen.
We shall be using Create(Uri, ShellTileData) method to create a Tiles on Start Screen. Then create a new image folder having the name Images in your project and add some sample images to it.ģ. First of all create a new project having the name Secondarytiles.Ģ. Typical uses for a secondary Tile include scenarios where you want to show important information to the user on the Start screen of the phone.ġ.
#WINDOWS 8 ADDING LIVE TILES HOW TO#
This is the third blog post of this series in which I am going to explain you how to create a secondary tile on Windows phone start screen.īefore going ahead I would like to give you a short summary on Secondary tiles.Ī secondary Tile is created programmatically by an application based on interaction from the user.