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Tiles and Toasts

The official blog of the team that owns the UWP tile and toast API's.

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 02/01/2017

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 02/01/2017

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 01/09/2017

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 01/09/2017

If you're a developer and wondering "Why isn't my Live Tile updating?", you've came to the right...

Date: 11/04/2016

The XML payload that you construct for your tile notifications must be no larger than 5 KB....

Date: 11/04/2016

In Windows 10 UWP, alarms are simply Toast notifications with the "alarm" scenario. And to make an...

Date: 09/30/2016

Note that if you follow the guidance in the latest documentation for desktop toasts, you don't need...

Date: 09/26/2016

The UWP Community Toolkit is a new open-source library that enables the developer community to...

Date: 08/19/2016

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 06/18/2016

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 06/10/2016

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 06/10/2016

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 05/26/2016

In the Anniversary Update of Windows 10, we've made Toast Notifications as visually-capable as Live...

Date: 05/23/2016

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 04/06/2016

This topic shows how to enable the notification queue on your tile. It also shows how to tag your...

Date: 01/05/2016

Have you ever wanted to display a preview of your live tile in your app's settings page, so the user...

Date: 12/18/2015

With Version 1511 of Windows 10 (build 10586, codename TH2 or Threshold 2), we released a few...

Date: 11/20/2015

For 1511, we've added a number of small features and improvements to Adaptive Tile Templates. This...

Date: 11/03/2015

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 10/22/2015

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Date: 10/16/2015

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 10/05/2015

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 09/22/2015

Notifications Visualizer is a new universal app in the Store that helps developers design adaptive...

Date: 09/22/2015

The Notifications library from the UWP Community Toolkit allows you to generate tile, toast, and...

Date: 08/20/2015

(Published on behalf of Adam Wilson) Well that was exciting. In a little over 5 days we managed to...

Date: 08/07/2015

Users can pick one app to display a detailed status on their lock screen, displaying up to three...

Date: 08/05/2015

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 07/31/2015

Previously in desktop Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, a toast notification was a transient message – a...

Date: 07/10/2015

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 07/08/2015

This topic discusses the concepts and terminology surrounding toast notifications. A toast...

Date: 07/08/2015

Windows 10 brings a number of improvements to tiles, like adaptive tile templates which make it...

Date: 07/06/2015

Content moved Please see the article on docs.microsoft.com for the latest documentation.

Date: 07/02/2015

Adaptive tile templates are a new feature in Windows 10, allowing you to easily specify content on...

Date: 06/30/2015

Adaptive tile templates are a new feature in Windows 10, allowing you to easily specify content on...

Date: 06/29/2015