Universal Windows® Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed

Options for Showing Toast Notifications

Although toast notifications don’t have the same kind of pull option that live tiles have, there are three ways to show one:

→ Local

→ Scheduled

→ Push

This section examines local and scheduled notifications, as push notifications are discussed in the next section.

Just like TileNotification, ToastNotification defines an ExpirationTime property, although it’s not meaningful due to the short-lived nature of notifications.

Local

This is the approach that has already been shown. In addition to calling ToastNotifier’s Show method, you can call its Hide method to hide the toast early, presumably due to some user action inside your app. However, local toast notifications are not the most common kind because ...