WNS Badge, Toast and Tile Reference
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Using WNS as part of your Windows 8 Store app? Digging into Windows Azure Mobile Services? The Windows Notification Service is a key part of the Windows 8 platform and really great apps know how to use Push Notifications to make their great apps awesome.
Here’s a reference I got from my teammate Nick Harris showing off all the variations of Push Notification messages you can send to a Windows 8 machine, either manually from your own code, or from node.js scripts in your Windows Azure Mobile Services.
Toast variants: http://aka.ms/wnstoast
Tile variants: http://aka.ms/wnstile
Badge variants: http://aka.ms/wnsbadge
For the Mobile Services developer, these manifest themselves in the node javascript code something like this:
var parms = { image1src: 'http://link.to/myimage.jpg', image1alt: 'Alt tag for my image', text1: 'Text to put into the notification' }; push.wns.sendToastImageAndText01(channel, parms);
Check out these links to learn what badge, tile or toast message options are available, and choose the one that makes the most sense for you and your app.
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