is there something like a hubtile (WP7) in win 8 metro style?

Question

i want to port one of my windows phone 7 apps to the windows 8 metro style plattform.

the problem is, that i need a element like the hubtile which i use from the silverlight toolkit for windows phone.

is there something equal in the windows 8 metro style platform? maybe open source like the silverlight toolkit.

i dont want to add the livetile outside my app, this is easy. i want to have something like hubtile for WP7 for win8. This means a tile which is inside my application.

Answer 1

If I'm right I'm planning to do the same task. I didn't find any reference of a control which performs like a HubTile. Thus, I decided importing the one from the Silverlight Toolkit (for Windows Phone). Luckily it worked almost smoothly, you can see my sample at:

https://github.com/hmadrigal/playground-dotnet/tree/master/MsWinPhone.EmbedFont (tested on Windows 8 RP and Visual Studio 2012 RC)

Kind regards, Herber