Frustrating Background Task not firing in published app

[mbagdanoff]

I have a small blog reader app (FarkMe) that has a dynamically updated live tile (code below). It works great and updates the tile on an hourly basis with the top headlines. The frustration comes from the fact that it ONLY works in the emulator or when deployed to my dev phone via VS2013, even as a Release package. Once I publish the app to the store and download it (on the same dev phone) the background task never fires.

I plan on adding some logging to the app on the next release but I was wondering if anyone else has come across this issue and knows the cause?

Thanks for your help

Edit: Figured it out - you have to save the tile xaml to Windows::Storage::ApplicationData::Current->LocalFolder, not Windows::ApplicationModel:ackage::Current->InstalledLocationlike the sample uses

 

[KSilcox]

Thanks for the update. This will probably come in handy for others who run into the same issue.

 

[loverusham]

Hey Can u tell me how do u manage to get the rss updates in background task and how to deserialize it in main code.I am having lots of troubles implementing the live tile feature in my App