How to Add App, BackGround and SplashScreen Images to Windows Phone

C# - Add Title and Tile images to Windows Phone


Windows Phone primary contains the following Application images

Application - This image is shown as Icon for Application
BackGround - This will be used in Tile
SplashScreen - This image will be shown during loading of the application

The images for Application and Background can be set from Properties Dialog:

The Size of the images are

Application - 62    X  62
Background - 173 X  173
SplashScreen - 480 X 800 (should be JPG)

The default Star Icon will be added to the project automatically from Visual Studio

How to Add Icons to the Windows Phone Project (C#/.NET)

Windows Phone SDK comes with a list of Icons.

They are available in the following location

 Location of Icons in Visual Studio (Windows Phone Development):

On 32-bit operating systems: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.1\Icons On 64-bit operating systems: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.1\Icons

To add an icon to the project: Icons can be either created or added;

If you want to create a new Icon
 file use the following option

To add an existing icon, select from the list of Icons
 
Do some edits / updates if needed

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