How to show balloon tip message in windows notification center(Windows 11)?

Question

I use this API (Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_MODIFY, &m_nidIconData);) to show balloon tip

In windows 10, balloon tip message will show in notification center normally.

In windows 11, balloon tip appear normally but it's message not show in notification center.

In win11, use another api to show message in windows notification center?

Answer 1

On Windows 10, I use NIIF_USER to add messages in Notification Center

Otherwise, you can use Toasts

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/shell/tiles-and-notifications/adaptive-interactive-toasts?tabs=appsdk

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/shell/tiles-and-notifications/toast-notifications-overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/quickstart-sending-desktop-toast

Some samples :

https://github.com/WindowsNotifications/desktop-toasts

Answer 2

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

As far as I'm concerned, there is no need to use another API to show message in windows notification center.

Have you set the Show notifications in notification center for the app?

I suggest you could try the official sample to check whether the message is displayed in the notification center.

I test the code on win11, the message could be displayed in the notification center.

And you could refer to the Doc: Notifications and the Notification Area

Thank you.

Jeanine

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