Working with Advanced Live Tiles in Windows 8: Listing 1

CustomSecondaryTile.cs

• By Eric Vogel
• 06/18/2012

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Windows.UI.StartScreen;
using Windows.Foundation;
using Windows.UI.Xaml;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media;
using Windows.UI.Notifications;
using Windows.Data.Xml.Dom;

namespace VSMAdvancedTilesDemo.Common
{
    public class CustomSecondaryTile
    {
        SecondaryTile _tile;

        public CustomSecondaryTile(string tileId)
        {
            _tile = new SecondaryTile(tileId);
        }

        public CustomSecondaryTile(string tileId, string message)
        {
            Uri squareTileUri = new Uri("ms-appx:///Assets/Check.png");
            Uri wideTileUri = new Uri("ms-appx:///Assets/CheckWide.png");
            _tile = new SecondaryTile(tileId, message,
                                            message, String.Empty,
                                            TileOptions.ShowNameOnWideLogo | TileOptions.ShowNameOnLogo,
                                            squareTileUri,
                                            wideTileUri);
        }

        public async Task RequestCreation(FrameworkElement positionElement)
        {
            return await _tile.RequestCreateForSelectionAsync(GetCenteredElementRect(positionElement));
        }

        public void PushBageNotification(string value)
        {
            XmlDocument badgeDoc = BadgeUpdateManager.GetTemplateContent(BadgeTemplateType.BadgeNumber);
            XmlElement element = (XmlElement)badgeDoc.SelectSingleNode("/badge");
            element.SetAttribute("value", value);
            BadgeNotification badgeNotification = new BadgeNotification(badgeDoc);
            BadgeUpdateManager.CreateBadgeUpdaterForSecondaryTile(_tile.TileId).Update(badgeNotification);
        }

        public void PushTileNotification(string message, TileTemplateType squareTeamplte, TileTemplateType wideTeamplte)
        {
            XmlDocument wideDoc = TileUpdateManager.GetTemplateContent(wideTeamplte);
            XmlNodeList wideElements = wideDoc.GetElementsByTagName("text");
            wideElements.Item(0).AppendChild(wideDoc.CreateTextNode(message));
            XmlDocument squareDoc = TileUpdateManager.GetTemplateContent(squareTeamplte);
            XmlNodeList squareElements = squareDoc.GetElementsByTagName("text");
            squareElements.Item(0).AppendChild(squareDoc.CreateTextNode(message));
            IXmlNode subNode = wideDoc.ImportNode(squareDoc.GetElementsByTagName("binding").Item(0), true);
            wideDoc.GetElementsByTagName("visual").Item(0).AppendChild(subNode);
            TileNotification tileNotification = new TileNotification(wideDoc);
            TileUpdateManager.CreateTileUpdaterForSecondaryTile(_tile.TileId).Update(tileNotification);
        }

        public async Task RequestDelete(FrameworkElement parentElement)
        {
            return await _tile.RequestDeleteForSelectionAsync(GetCenteredElementRect(parentElement));
        }

        private Rect GetCenteredElementRect(FrameworkElement e)
        {
            GeneralTransform transform = e.TransformToVisual(null);
            Point transformPoint = transform.TransformPoint(new Point());
            return new Rect(transformPoint, new Size(e.ActualWidth, e.ActualHeight));
        }
    }
}