ShellToast Class
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
Used for displaying a toast to the user.
Assembly: Microsoft.Phone (in Microsoft.Phone.dll)
XMLNS for XAML: Not mapped to an xmlns.
The ShellToast type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Content | Get or sets the contents of the toast message. |
![]() | NavigationUri | Gets or sets the URI to navigate to if the user taps the toast message. |
![]() | Sound | Gets or sets the sound URI of the toast message. |
![]() | Title | Gets or sets the title of the toast message. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | Show | Displays the toast message. |
![]() | ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
While the ShellToast.Show method can be called from any application, a toast will not be displayed if the current foreground application is the caller of the ShellToast.Show method. This means that this should primarily be used by a background agent.
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