Creatingan icon-based tile The easiest way to look great on Live Tiles is to just display your app's icon against a transparent background. This is the "standard" way to do tiles. To achieve this look, you can either create tile images with transparent backgrounds, or just let Windows display your app's icon on a regular tile.Tilesstill go in the manifest. Visual Studio 2015RC doesn't have a visual manifest editor so you will need to edit the XML directly. You can find the full schema in the uap:VisualElements documentation or can see the basics in the wizard based or sample apps:
WindowsDesign Device experiences Simple app and tile updates Article 05/25/2022 6 contributors Feedback Modern standby enables the system to stay fresh and up-to-date by being able to stay connected to the network during sleep and by carefully controlling the execution of app background tasks.Designyour tile for the Start screen. You can customize two aspects of your desktop app tiles: the app name, and icon. The background color is derived from the user's chosen background color and isn't programmatically customizable. DO: Avoid truncation of your application name.
