I created a Windows Phone application, In that i need to create the custom tile and update it from program
I created a User control,
<TextBlock x:Name="Count" Foreground="White" FontFamily="Segoe WP Bold" FontSize="80" Text="{Binding Count}" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,0,10,0"/>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Margin="0,0,0,0" Grid.Row="1" Text="Tile Demo" Foreground="White" FontFamily="Segoe WP Semibold" FontSize="35" />
from my MainPage.xaml.cs file i am binding the count then i am converting the User control into a .jpg file and storing in the ISO Store. Like below
public void CreateOrUpdateTile(int count)
{
CustomNotificationTile frontTile = new CustomNotificationTile();
TileData tileData = new TileData() { Count = count };
frontTile.DataContext = tileData;
//frontTile.Count.Text = count.ToString();
frontTile.Measure(new Size(173, 173));
frontTile.Arrange(new Rect(0, 0, 173, 173));
var bmp = new WriteableBitmap(173, 173);
bmp.Render(frontTile, null);
bmp.Invalidate();
var isf = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
var filename = "/Shared/ShellContent/Tile.jpg";
if (!isf.DirectoryExists("/Shared/ShellContent"))
{
isf.CreateDirectory("/Shared/ShellContent");
}
using (var stream = isf.OpenFile(filename, System.IO.FileMode.OpenOrCreate))
{
bmp.SaveJpeg(stream, 173, 173, 0, 100);
}
ShellTile TileToFind = ShellTile.ActiveTiles.FirstOrDefault(x => x.NavigationUri.ToString().Contains("TileID=2"));
//test if Tile was created
if (TileToFind == null)
{
StandardTileData NewTileData = new StandardTileData
{
BackgroundImage = new Uri("isostore:" + filename, UriKind.Absolute),
BackBackgroundImage = new Uri("Application_TileImage_173x173.png", UriKind.Relative)
};
ShellTile.Create(new Uri("/MainPage.xaml?TileID=2", UriKind.Relative), NewTileData);
}
#region Update the Tile Not Working as expected
else
{
StandardTileData NewTileData = new StandardTileData
{
BackgroundImage = new Uri("isostore:" + filename, UriKind.Absolute)
};
TileToFind.Update(NewTileData);
}
#endregion
}
Problem:
My problem is first i am calling from constructor to create the tile with some dummy data, Its Working as expected
But when i try to update the Tile from other methods its not working, those methods i am calling from page_load event
Those methods will fetch data from a WCF service, i am updating the Tile from the completed event of the WCF service method like below
Service.getProductsCountAsync();
Service.getProductsCountCompleted += (o,e) => {
int count = e.Result;
Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(() =>
{
CreateOrUpdateTile(count);
});
};
When the controller hit the above code, I only seeing the number with black background, Tile count is updating but the background color and logo are changing, I don't know why its happening but need to solve as early as possible.
I think the problem might be updating the UI from the background thread, but i don't know how to overcome that
Following are the images which will taken before method calls and after method calls
Its working
We have to Bind the Background color, Logo also dynamically like count even though they are static
After that it is working as expected