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Asked: 2026-06-02T05:35:05+00:00

I am considering my Launch Screen/Dashboard screen having tiles(Squares with a few lines of

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I am considering my Launch Screen/Dashboard screen having tiles(Squares with a few lines of information on them). I understand that tiles are not a UI object for use inside Windows Phone apps, but I’ve seen some people fake them somehow.

Can anybody gimme and some tips and guidance as to how this is achieved? I am under the impression of what I have seen in my first 2 days working on Win-Mobile that you cannot stack view objects on top of each other. For example drawing a square object and then drawing 3 lines of text on top of that to make a tile.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here is what I am doing for my Dashboard page in my application. It is simply a StackPanel with two TextBlocks inside. These StackPanels are then inside of a WrapPanel from the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone inside of a ListBox, which you don’t have to use.

    <ListBox Name="lstTiles" Margin="0,0,-12,0">
    <ListBoxItem>
        <StackPanel Background="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" Width="173" Height="173" Margin="12,12,0,0" Tap="stkSignIn_Tap">
            <TextBlock Text="Tile Title" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle2Style}" Foreground="White" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="12,6,12,12" Height="106" />
            <TextBlock Text="Your subtitle here" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}" Foreground="White" Margin="12,12,12,12" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" />
        </StackPanel>
    </ListBoxItem>
    <ListBoxItem>
        <StackPanel Background="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" Width="173" Height="173" Margin="12,12,0,0" Tap="stkSignIn_Tap">
            <TextBlock Text="Tile Title" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle2Style}" Foreground="White" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="12,6,12,12" Height="106" />
            <TextBlock Text="Your subtitle here" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}" Foreground="White" Margin="12,12,12,12" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" />
        </StackPanel>
    </ListBoxItem>
    <ListBoxItem>
        <StackPanel Background="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" Width="173" Height="173" Margin="12,12,0,0" Tap="stkSignIn_Tap">
            <TextBlock Text="Tile Title" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle2Style}" Foreground="White" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="12,6,12,12" Height="106" />
            <TextBlock Text="Your subtitle here" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}" Foreground="White" Margin="12,12,12,12" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" />
        </StackPanel>
    </ListBoxItem>
</ListBox>
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