New Post: Using Tile Toolkit with Background Agents
Hi There,Great job with the tookit - I think it can go a long way to improving the ease of making beautify, consistent Live Tile apps for Windows Phone.I am currently trying to use this with a...
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Hi,Just a quick update. The issue seems to be related to the specific memory restrictions of the periodic agent. Periodic agents are restricted to use only 6MB of memory and I believe that the...
View ArticleNew Post: Use of Tile Toolkit with MVVM ( light )
A note for the MVVM users.When accessing the framework to create a new tile, be sure to launch it on the UI thread! It seems that image creation needs to be done on the UI thread.So if you create a...
View ArticleNew Post: Using Tile Toolkit with Background Agents
Don't know what you did nanabite, but I just managed to get a live tile on my device with the Ree7 Tile Toolkit
View ArticleNew Post: Using Tile Toolkit with Background Agents
Ok did some testing and indeed sometimes the generation will fail ( but not always ), resulting in an empty live tile on the pinned tile on the homescreen
View ArticleNew Post: Using Tile Toolkit with Background Agents
I'm also seeing ControlToPng.RenderAsPNGStream go over the memory limitations when run from a PeriodicTask.I've experimented with swapping out the PNG code and using WriteableBitmap SaveJpeg. Seems to...
View ArticleNew Post: Extend for Mosiac tiles?
Hi,Would it be possible to extend the control to render tiles similar to the People tile on the phone front screen? Set a number of pictures to be randomly rotated in as small sections of the tile?Rupert
View ArticleNew Post: Extend for Mosiac tiles?
Hi Rupert,Yes, you can write (and share with the community) your own tile template in XAML. Just duplicate the existing template and replace its content by a 3x3 grid containing images with the proper...
View ArticleNew Post: Update tiles from background agent?
Hi, I just created some tile using this Tile Toolkit:var tile = new LiveTiles.LiveTileCurrency(); var customTile = CustomTileFactory.GetTemplatedTile("MyTile", tile,...
View ArticleNew Post: Implementing Ree7 tiles into XAML
How can custom Ree7 tiles be implemented into XAML for Windows PHone?
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