Raising Toast Notifications

Windows apps provide support for many kinds of notifications, such as updatable live tiles, scheduled notifications, and toast notifications. These are the simplest notifications available, and this section provides an overview of them.

A toast notification is a small, nonblocking popup that informs the user that something has happened. You use the Windows.UI.Notifications namespace and the ToastNotificationManager class to create toast notifications. For example, you can notify users that an operation has completed, or you can show error messages. Examples of toast notifications in Windows 10 for phones are incoming text messages and new wireless connections found. An example of a toast notification in Windows 10 ...

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