Pop a simple, local toast notification

05/16/2016

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Eliot Cowley, Content Developer

Here is how to create a text-only local toast notification in a Windows 10 UWP app.

using Windows.Data.Xml.Dom; using Windows.UI.Notifications; using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls; private static void ShowToast(string title, string content) { XmlDocument toastXml = new XmlDocument(); string xml = $@" <toast activationType='foreground'> <visual> <binding template='ToastGeneric'> <text>{title}</text> <text>{content}</text> </binding> </visual> </toast>"; toastXml.LoadXml(xml); ToastNotification toast = new ToastNotification(toastXml); ToastNotificationManager.CreateToastNotifier().Show(toast); }

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