Question

Any body have any luck with ShellTileSchedule? I have followed the Microsoft example and still have gotten no where.

“How to: Update Your Tile Without Push Notifications for Windows Phone”

Has any one seen a complete example that works on a device or emulator?

Answer 1

Yes…I started with the sample at http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/WP7TrainingKit/WP7Silverlight/UsingPushNotificationsLab/Exercise-2-Introduction-to-the-Toast-and-Tile-Notifications-for-Alerts/

and skipped immediately down to “Task 3 – Processing Scheduled Tile Notifications on the Phone.” After that I had to wait about 1 hour, leaving the emulator running on my desktop (1 hour is the minimum update interval, indicated as such for “performance considerations.”

            _shellTileSchedule = new ShellTileSchedule
                                 {
                                     Recurrence = UpdateRecurrence.Interval,
                                     Interval = UpdateInterval.EveryHour,
                                     StartTime = DateTime.Now - TimeSpan.FromMinutes(59),
                                     RemoteImageUri = new Uri(@"http://cdn3.afterdawn.fi/news/small/windows-phone-7-series.png")
                                 };

Note that setting the StartTime to DateTime.Now – 59 minutes did nothing. It still waited a full hour for its first update. I could not find any mechanism to perform “go to this URI and Update yourself NOW!”, other than calling out to a web service that tickles a Tile Notification.