Toast Notifications

Using toast notification instead of the built-in reminder dialog allows users to get notifications whether or not the application is running. This also allows an end-user to launch the application by clicking on the notification. You can see a full implementation of the toast notification property in the Save Local Data sample located in the ComponentOne Samples folder:

C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\Documents\ComponentOne Samples\WinRT XAML Phone\C1.Xaml.Schedule\CS\ScheduleSamples

It's simple to set up toast notification, just use the following code in your MainPage() constructor. Note that it's contained within a try-catch statement:

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try { // set toast notifier for C1Schedule to show toast notifications instead of embedded reminder dialog sched1.ToastNotifier = Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastNotificationManager.CreateToastNotifier(); // note, notifications might not be shown if end-user disabled them for some reason // also, toast notifications are disabled when application is running in simulator } catch { // if application manifest doesn't allow toast notifications, then above code will fail }

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try
{
    // set toast notifier for C1Schedule to show toast notifications instead of embedded reminder dialog
    sched1.ToastNotifier = Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastNotificationManager.CreateToastNotifier();
    // note, notifications might not be shown if end-user disabled them for some reason
    // also, toast notifications are disabled when application is running in simulator
}
catch
{
    // if application manifest doesn't allow toast notifications, then above code will fail
}

The toast notification resembles the following image. When it's triggered, it will appear in the top right section of the end-user's screen: