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This article is going to be small, simple and basic but very important when you develope app. We are going to discuss about application tile which is very much required to submit application in Marketplace. By default Windows Phone 7 creates tile which is quite boring and common for all the application.
Let's see how we can create tile.
Step 1: Create a Windows Phone 7 project and run the application. You will see below tiles in app list and when you pin the application to start.
Step 2: Create two image, one should be of size 173X173 and other will be 99X99. Add both the images in the project.
Step 3: Open WMAppManifest.xml which is inside Properties folder. The bold item has been modified to provide title, author, description and publisher to the tile. The "My App" which is in Title will appear just next to tile.
< App xmlns="" ProductID="{8f2d70cd-af58-4227-82a3-762de08968c4}" Title="My App" RuntimeType="Silverlight" Version="1.0.0.0" Genre="apps.normal" Author="Sumit Dutta" Description="My app description" Publisher="Sumit Dutta">
The small image of 99x99 will be used as icon in the application list.
< IconPath IsRelative="true" IsResource="false">SmallApplicationTile.png</IconPath>
The larget image of 173X173 will be used when you pin the application to start.
< Tokens>
<PrimaryToken TokenID="Windows_Phone_7___Application_TileToken" TaskName="_default">
<TemplateType5>
<BackgroundImageURI IsRelative="true" IsResource="false">ApplicationTile.png</BackgroundImageURI>
<Count>0</Count>
<Title></Title>
</TemplateType5>
</PrimaryToken>
</Tokens>
Step 4: Now run the application again. You will get the tile and icon set by you.
This ends the artilce of creating application tile in Windows Phone 7.
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