title: Windows 8 live tile from NET 4.5 app
body: <p>I have create a Windows Store app which successfully updates its tile (live tile). The thing I hate about this now is that it seems there is no way for me to install this app anywhere except either through Windows Store or using another developer account (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7493090/how-to-distribute-compiled-windows-8-metro-applications-without-windows-store">see this</a>).</p>
  
  <p>Since I am looking to support only desktop PC with this, can I work with live tiles from a generic NET 4.5 application?</p>
  
  <p>Or to put it differently, is there a way to use / control live tiles from apps other than Windows Store apps?</p>
  
  <p>This is still all too new to me... Finding answers on the web and SO revealed nothing.</p>