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How can I set no title to my app, like the Facebook app, since my app also have its name displayed in the logo ? I tried in the app properties in Visual Studio but it displays an error saying that the title should not be empty.

To clarify : I want the app tile not to display the app title.

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Have you tried putting spaces in? –  Praetorian Sep 28 '11 at 15:37
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Open the WMManifest.xml in the Properties folder.

Find this:

  <PrimaryToken TokenID="AppToken" TaskName="_default">
      <Title>YOUR APP TITLE HERE</Title>

And change the Title element to


Done. No more title displayed on the tile when pinning your app.

Example to prove it's possible (This is a app that's available on the marketplace)

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You cannot have your primary application title without a title, though I believe that through Push Notification services it has been possible to remove the title.

If you are creating a Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) application, you could try using the ShellTile API to set the title to an empty string. The primary tile is the first value returned by the ActiveTiles property if the application is pinned to the Start screen.

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No no, he just wants the Title in the TemplateType5 token inside WMManifest.xml to be blank. –  Claus Jørgensen - MSFT Sep 28 '11 at 17:20
I didn't think that was acceptable in the Marketplace? I thought it would fail certification for that. I guess I was wrong :( –  Derek Lakin Sep 29 '11 at 8:10
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