Toast Templates

As with live tiles and badges, toast notifications are defined by simple XML templates. For example, the following method can be invoked at any time to trigger a toast notification, with differences from live tiles and badges highlighted:

void SendToast() {   // create a string with the toast template xml   string xmlString = @" <toast>   <visual>     <binding template='ToastText01'>       <text id='1'>Alert!</text>     </binding>     </visual> </toast>" ;   // Load the content into an XML document   XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument();   document.LoadXml(xmlString);   // Create a toast notification and send it   ToastNotification notification = new ToastNotification(document);   ToastNotificationManager ...

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