Create tile / secondary tile from a desktop app

Question

I would like to create a custom tile for my Windows Forms Application.

I found that the Secondary Tile is in the Microsoft.UI.StartScreen namespace witch isn't available in WinForms.

So how can I accomplish this?

Answer 1

Unfortunatley normal desktop applications cannot, by design, create custom tiles on the start screen. The best one can do is to optimize the executable's icon for the tile format as described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/jj673981