Notifications Overview (Archived)

Warning

This component has been archived and is not available in the current version of the Windows Community Toolkit.

For WinUI 3 apps, notifications were superseded by the App notifications feature in the Windows App SDK.

For UWP apps, the original notifications package was ported to Windows Community Toolkit Labs and is available only for UWP applications.

For more information:

• Community Toolkit GitHub repository
• Documentation feedback and suggestions

Original documentation follows below.

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Adaptive Live Tiles and interactive Toasts are key engagement components of a UWP Application on Windows 10. Instead of having to deal with XML, you can now use Windows Community toolkit and its notification extensions to work with Tiles and notifications using a complete object model.

Tiles

Documentation
Create Adaptive Tile
Sending a local Tile notification

Sample Output

Toasts

Documentation
Interactive Toast Notifications
Send a local toast

Sample Output

Sending toasts from desktop C# apps

If you're developing a non-UWP C# app for Windows, the Windows Community Toolkit makes it easier to send an interactive toast notification from your desktop C# app. To learn more, see Send a local toast notification from C# apps.

Requirements

Device family	Universal, 10.0.10240.0 or higher
Namespace for C#	Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Notifications
Namespace for JavaScript	Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Notifications.Javascript

API

• Notifications source code

Related Topics

• Toast Notification UX Guidance