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Giddy on the day he learned to sit up!
This is Liam
Exploring the great outdoors!
• Run the website in Internet Explorer using the Debug > Start Debugging command or the
Internet Explorer toolbar button (where you’d find the Local Machine or Simulator options in
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8). This will launch Internet Explorer with a URI like
http://localhost:52568/HelloTiles/Default.cshtml where the port number is what routes the URI to
the site running in the debugger. If you need to set up your localhost server, see the next
section, “Using the Localhost.”
• Run the Push notifications app sample, switch to Scenario 4, paste the URI into the URI1 field,
and press the Start periodic updates.
• If all is well, you should see the wide tile update as follows. (OK, so it’s another shameless picture
of my kid…what can I say? You have to give us fathers a break!)
• If you use the Start screen’s app bar command to make the tile smaller, thereby using the square
tile payload in the XML, you should see it switch between to another gratuitous picture of my kid
and peek text:
The complete website code for all this can be found in the HelloTiles example in this chapter’s
companion content. As simple as it is, it provides the basic framework in which you can add code to
generate more dynamic results. In the top part of the file, within the @{ }, you can write whatever code
you need by using C#.
Generally speaking, a real service that provides tile and badge updates would probably be connected
on the server side to some other useful source of information, perhaps to an always-running process
that can monitor other sites, extract the desired data, and generate updates. Those updates can be
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