Trailer for Windows 8 Using XAML tutorial: Badges and Secondary Tiles with Expert Instructor -- Ken Getz.
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In this course you will learn to create badge notifications for tiles, including numeric and glyph badges. You will see how to create badge notifications using XML and using the NotificationsExtensions library. Then you will investigate the secondary tile user interface with existing applications. Then you will create a secondary tile, pinned from the bottom app bar, then pin and unpin secondary tiles programmatically. Then you will see how to enumerate all secondary tiles for an application and provide badge and tile notifications for a secondary tile.