Question

What is the best way to test a live tile update?

I am setting a schedule and waiting in the emulator, but nothing appears to be happening and i’m trying to find an easy way to force an update?

do i have to wait for the schedule to timeout?

are there any events to subscribe to an update to debug it?

Answer 1

I have found a way to send an “instant” live tile update to a phone, and it involves using the toast tile notifications followed by a schedule.

• phone opens a httpnotification channel
• phone constructs tile toast xml and uploads it to the above created channel uri
• phone closes the channel

this allows the phone to literally “update” the current tile “right now” as apposed to having to wait an hour to see if everything worked ok.

blog post detailing the above here:

http://www.diaryofaninja.com/blog/2011/04/03/windows-phone-7-live-tile-schedules-ndash-executing-instant-live-tile-updates