Reading more about the new windows 10 features which are really interessant , i found a code snippet of how to create a simple toastbar notification on the desktop.
The example is very simple, a label will display the name of the called action in an event of the toast when a button is clicked, the source code is the following :
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using Windows.UI.Notifications;
using Windows.Data.Xml.Dom;
namespace DesktopToastsSample
{
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
private const String APP_ID = "Microsoft.Samples.DesktopToastsSample";
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
ShowToastButton.Click += ShowToastButton_Click;
}
// Create and show the toast.
// See the "Toasts" sample for more detail on what can be done with toasts
private void ShowToastButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
// Get a toast XML template
XmlDocument toastXml = ToastNotificationManager.GetTemplateContent(ToastTemplateType.ToastImageAndText04);
// Write text example
XmlNodeList stringElements = toastXml.GetElementsByTagName("text");
for (int i = 0; i < stringElements.Length; i++)
{
stringElements[i].AppendChild(toastXml.CreateTextNode("This is the line #" + i));
}
// Specify the absolute path to an image
String imagePath = "file:///" + Path.GetFullPath("toastImageAndText.png");
XmlNodeList imageElements = toastXml.GetElementsByTagName("image");
imageElements[0].Attributes.GetNamedItem("src").NodeValue = imagePath;
// Create the toast and attach event listeners
ToastNotification toast = new ToastNotification(toastXml);
toast.Activated += ToastActivated;
toast.Dismissed += ToastDismissed;
toast.Failed += ToastFailed;
// Show the toast. Be sure to specify the AppUserModelId on your application's shortcut!
ToastNotificationManager.CreateToastNotifier(APP_ID).Show(toast);
}
private void ToastActivated(ToastNotification sender, object e)
{
Dispatcher.Invoke(() =>
{
Activate();
Output.Text = "The user activated the toast.";
});
}
private void ToastDismissed(ToastNotification sender, ToastDismissedEventArgs e)
{
String outputText = "";
switch (e.Reason)
{
case ToastDismissalReason.ApplicationHidden:
outputText = "The app hid the toast using ToastNotifier.Hide";
break;
case ToastDismissalReason.UserCanceled:
outputText = "The user dismissed the toast";
break;
case ToastDismissalReason.TimedOut:
outputText = "The toast has timed out";
break;
}
Dispatcher.Invoke(() =>
{
Output.Text = outputText;
});
}
private void ToastFailed(ToastNotification sender, ToastFailedEventArgs e)
{
Dispatcher.Invoke(() =>
{
Output.Text = "An error ocurred";
});
}
}
}
You can Read more about this snippet here and the msdn article here.