The Windows Push Notification Services (WNS) enables third-party developers to send toast, tile, badge, and raw updates from their own cloud service. This provides a mechanism to deliver new updates to your users in a power-efficient and dependable way.
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WNS - Tiles are delivered and Toasts not
I have a big problem with the deliveration of Toast-Messages. The tiles are delivered as expeceted.
The first toast message I send to the device (with a new push URL) gets a resonse header with
X-WNS-NOTIFICATIONSTATUS: received
X-WNS-STATUS:…

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Push notification WP8.1 "Invalid channel URL"
I try to send push notifications on WP8.1. App is build with Cordova.
Client side
I create a new new app in https://dev.windows.com > Dashboard
With visual studio 2015 community, I associate my app to the new app
(right click on project> Store >…

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Send push notifications using Registration ID through Azure Notification Hubs
I am trying to use Azure Notification Hubs to send push notifications to a client. I read this article which uses tags to identify each…

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PushNotificationType.TileFlyout addition in UWP. What is it?
I am building a sample app to test the new push notification features in UWP. I have come accross the new addition in the PushNotificationType enum.
Namely PushNotificationType.TileFlyout
Does it suggest that there is a fifth kind of push…

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App-specific Notification Sound, Badge and Toast (WNS)
Want I remember to have heard was that with WNS, you can specify a special sound for the notification you send, as is done for Android.
I have looked on different sites msdn, urban and microsoft examples, only reference I have found regarding toast…

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Azure notification hubs - Windows (WNS) error - Invalid WNS credentials
I am trying to setup Windows (WNS) notifications based on following Microsoft tutorial: Send notifications to Universal Windows Platform apps using Azure Notification Hubs
System returns error at step 3 in chapter Configure WNS settings for the hub.…

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Is it possible to receive push notifications from WNS in a WPF app, which uses Xaml Islands?
I'm creating an app in WPF and using Xaml Islands to add UWP look and feel to it.
I'd like to receive push notifications from Amazon SNS, using the Windows Push Notification Services (WNS). Following this article to create a notification channel, I…

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Receive Push Notification in Windows with delphi application?
I would like to create a Windows application in Delphi 10 enabled to receive push notifications.
I have seen that in Delphi 10 there is the BaaS provider to which to hook services like Kinvey, Parse, EMS. But I found serious problems, too many to…

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Is it possible to send a toast and badge notification in a single push message - windows WNS
Is it possible to send both a badge and toast notification in a single message.
The XML schema for a badge is
The XML schema for a toast is

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Push Notification for UWP using Amazon SNS
We are developing a Xamarin UWP app that is supposed to receive Push Notifications using WNS. We are using Amazon SNS to send notifications. We made sure that the app is registering itself with proper channel URI to our backend, package name of the…

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unable to get channel uri for UWP Windows notification service
I am trying to write a code to receive windows push notification in xamarin.
so far i am able to get the package SID, application id and client secret key from the windows developer account. later on i have associate my app from visual studio…

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Send a Toast Notification to spscific Windows Account not by WNS
I have this situation:
I need to send a notification through Action Center and I know that there are two ways: API and WNS (Windows Push Notification Service).
WNS is not an option for me due all clients Win 10 belong to an internal LAN without…

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WIndows Phone 8.1 WNS Pass data from Toast to App
I'm having some issues implementing Push Notifications in my Windows Phone 8.1 app. I've retrieved a Channel URI as such:
var channel = await PushNotificationChannelManager.CreatePushNotificationChannelForApplicationAsync();
return channel.Uri;
I…

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Azure Notification Hub register raw template for WNS
I have a C#/UWP app which receives notifications from WNS, and I can use the Azure Notification Hub test page to send it a raw notification. The only issue is I cannot register the device with the hub to receive the raw notification when a template…

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UWP - Create push notification channel error
I have a strange issue for creating a push notification channel uri.
When I try to execute the following code:
receivedChannel = await PushNotificationChannelManager.CreatePushNotificationChannelForApplicationAsync();
I catch an exception with the…

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