Windows 8 Notifications: Overview

re: Windows 8 Notifications: Overview

Jim O'Neil — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:49:47 GMT

Bruce,

It's close to a raw notification, but that involves background tasks which require the user give it 'special status' on the lock screen, something you can't really control or count on. If the device exposes a URL that would seem to expose an attack vector and/or involve firewall negotiation, etc., not to mention you can't really implement a windows service as part of a Windows 8 store application. Opening a socket might be an approach as well. What type of app experience are you trying to convey - it might help to have a more concrete example (presuming that's something you can share).

re: Windows 8 Notifications: Overview

Bruce — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:50:41 GMT

Hi Jim,

I'm looking for a pattern that will allow me to have a running app that is "listening" for events from external sources which then causes an action in the app.

i was looking at some combination of a windows service running on the win 8 device that exposes a url. The external device calls the url.

When the url is hit, it raises some sort of event that the app can respond too. e.g. load a page in the app, not a toast / tile type event. This looks like some combination of a RAW app running event.

would this work ?

Do you have any suggestions ?

TIA

B...

re: Windows 8 Notifications: Overview

Jim O'Neil — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:44:20 GMT

Arsany, the ToastNotifier and TileUpdater classes each have methods that you can used from within an app to enumerated the scheduled notifications (and perhaps delete them), but that would be on an app by app basis.

re: Windows 8 Notifications: Overview

Arsany Samy — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:27:04 GMT

Is there a way to view all my scheduled notifications? Where are they stored in the system?

Cheers

re: Windows 8 Notifications: Overview

Jim O'Neil — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:36:33 GMT

I do not know for certain, but would suspect those are not going through the same notification engine as regular apps do, even though they may expose themselves similarly.

re: Windows 8 Notifications: Overview

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:15:33 GMT

Hi Jim,

thanks for the great article, i have one question though - which notification services might have been used to display notification such as auto play, family safety etc. the reason i ask is i do not seem to turn the notification off and it does not get displayed under PC Settings.