WPF native windows 10 toasts

Question

Using .NET WPF and Windows 10, is there a way to push a local toast notification onto the action center using c#? I\'ve only seen people making custom dialogs for that but there

Answer 1

You can use a NotifyIcon from System.Windows.Forms namespace like this:

class Test 
{
    private readonly NotifyIcon _notifyIcon;

    public Test() 
    {
        _notifyIcon = new NotifyIcon();
        // Extracts your app's icon and uses it as notify icon
        _notifyIcon.Icon = Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
        // Hides the icon when the notification is closed
        _notifyIcon.BalloonTipClosed += (s, e) => _notifyIcon.Visible = false;
    }

    public void ShowNotification() 
    {
        _notifyIcon.Visible = true;
        // Shows a notification with specified message and title
        _notifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip(3000, "Title", "Message", ToolTipIcon.Info);
    }

}

This should work since .NET Framework 1.1. Refer to this MSDN page for parameters of ShowBalloonTip.

As I found out, the first parameter of ShowBalloonTip (in my example that would be 3000 milliseconds) is generously ignored. Comments are appreciated ;)