Stayin touch with the latest in the world of Windows! Live Tiles Anywhere app makes it easier for Windows 11/10 users to put Live Tiles directly to their Desktop. It's completely free for use. 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: Atile is an app's representation on the Start menu. Every app has a tile. When you create a new Windows app project in Microsoft Visual Studio, it includes a default tile that displays your app's name and logo. Windows displays this tile when your app is first installed. changethe kind of information that is displayed on the tile. For this kind of app, your responsibility is to create a tile whose contents are timely, obvious, and accurate, which means updating the tile when the app state is changed. I think about live app tiles in the same way that I think about UI animations: they are a good thing 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. Windows10 is missing a pretty important and rather obvious feature; it doesn't let you customize the color of an app tile. For app tiles that feature only an icon in a box, that box often looks ugly against whatever color has been set for the Start menu. Step4: Rejoice in the Glory of Colored Titlebars. The last thing to do is double-click the "windows.theme" file on your Desktop and watch the magic happen. And that's it. The color that shows will be whichever you set in the Personalization settings, which Dallas covered here. 83lkH7.