ToastNotifications for WPF (.NET Core 3)

[sibille]

In Windows Template Studio we're looking into adding a ToastNotification Feature to our WPF (.NET Core 3) Templates.
From the docs we've seen that the necessary DesktopNotificationManager was implemented on the Toolkit, but it's not available on .NETcore 3.

Would be great if WCT could support this scenario for .NET Core 3 too.

[ghost]

Thanks for submitting a new feature request! I've automatically added a vote 👍 reaction to help get things started. Other community members can vote to help us prioritize this feature in the future!

[michael-hawker]

Thanks @sibille, I feel like this was just an oversight, so hopefully it wouldn't be that hard to support and is just some build settings.

Have you tried using the API in a MSIX packaged app or only stand-alone?

@andrewleader according to this doc issue it sounded like your team was investigating the gap here. Have you made progress?

[sibille]

We tried to send a ToastNotification and activate the App from the ToastNotification from within a MSIX packaged app.
We could send the ToastNotification but had problems when implementing App Activation from the ToastNotification.

We tried adding the DesktopNotificationManagerCompat class as suggested in the docs, but this class does not compile as RegistrationServices could not be found.

Digging a bit deeper I've found the issue dotnet/runtime#10525

[Felix-Dev]

@sibille @michael-hawker You might also want to check out issue microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#1939. Not so long ago I was also fighting with the exact same activation issue for a WPF .NET Core 3 msix-packaged desktop app.