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Developing for Windows 8/ WinRT Session 7. Live Tiles and Background Tasks. Kevin Stumpf. 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
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Developing for Windows 8/WinRTSession 7 Live Tiles and Background Tasks Kevin Stumpf
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
Meet Danny March 25thfor our 8thsession! Orientation Handling and Near Field Communication