How to pin a contact tile to start from an application?

Question

I have a hubtile in my application which opens contacts for dialling a number. Now, i wanted to pin that into the start page of windows and i am implementing this feature by using the below code:

private void Click_Tap(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        ShellTile oTile = ShellTile.ActiveTiles.FirstOrDefault(x =>               
        x.NavigationUri.ToString().Contains("flip".ToString()));

        if (oTile != null && oTile.NavigationUri.ToString().Contains("flip"))
        {
            FlipTileData oFliptile = new FlipTileData();
            oFliptile.Title = "Hello WP8!!";
            oFliptile.Count = 11;
            oFliptile.BackTitle = "Updated Flip Tile";

            oFliptile.BackContent = "back of tile";
            oFliptile.WideBackContent = "back of the wide tile";

            oFliptile.SmallBackgroundImage = new Uri("Assets/Tiles/Flip/h.jpg", UriKind.Relative);
            oFliptile.BackgroundImage = new Uri("Assets/Tiles/Flip/h.jpg", UriKind.Relative);
            oFliptile.WideBackgroundImage = new Uri("Assets/Tiles/Flip/h.jpg", UriKind.Relative);
            oFliptile.BackBackgroundImage = new Uri("/Assets/Tiles/Flip/h.jpg", UriKind.Relative);
            oFliptile.WideBackBackgroundImage = new Uri("/Assets/Tiles/Flip/h.jpg", UriKind.Relative);
            oTile.Update(oFliptile);
            MessageBox.Show("Flip Tile Data successfully update.");
        }
        else
        {

            Uri tileUri = new Uri("/phoneNumberChooserTask.show()?tile=flip", UriKind.Relative);
            ShellTileData tileData = this.CreateFlipTileData();
            ShellTile.Create(tileUri, tileData, true);
        }
    }

    private ShellTileData CreateFlipTileData()
        return new FlipTileData()
        {
            Title = "",
            BackTitle = "",
            BackContent = "",
            WideBackContent = "",
            Count = 8,
           SmallBackgroundImage = new Uri("/Assets/Tiles/Flip/h.jpg", UriKind.Relative),
            BackgroundImage = new Uri("/Assets/Tiles/Flip/h.jpg", UriKind.Relative),
            WideBackgroundImage = new Uri("/Assets/Tiles/Flip/h.jpg", UriKind.Relative),
        };
    }

The problem i am facing is when i run this on a device/emulator, Tile gets pin to start but when i click the tile on the start screen of my device/emulator debugger stops the process and the process breaks.

Can anyone guide me in the right direction ?

Answer 1

Tile can not launch anything except your app. Add into uri some code that will be parsed by your app and then your app should call phoneNumberChooserTask.show(). For example:

new Uri("/Chooser.xaml?tile=flip", UriKind.Relative);

Then, in the Chooser.xaml (page in your project), in the OnNavigatedTo detect the title value in the Uri and call phoneNumberChooserTask.show().