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Push Notifications Sample
sample
cpp
windows-app-sdk
Demonstrates how to use the windows app SDK Push Notifications APIs from an unpackaged app
PushNotifications

Push Notifications Sample

This sample demonstrates:

  1. How an app can use the Windows App SDK to request a WNS Channel URI
    • The WNS Channel URI uniquely identifies the app for a current user on a specific device, allowing the app server to send notifications to the app.
  2. How to use the Windows App SDK to register an app for foreground and background activation and handle the activations.

Requirements

  • A web API tool (like Postman or fiddler) to send notifications.
    • The Windows App SDK push notifications APIs provides an API to register for and receive notifications from an external app service. The web API tool is used to emulate the external app service.
  • An Azure AppId for your app.
    • To obtain an Azure AppId, follow "Configure your app's identity in Azure Active Directory" here.
  • Windows 10

Building and running the sample

Before building the sample, make sure to set up your environment correctly by following the steps here. For the unpackaged sample apps, in addition to the steps for setting up the environment for the Windows App SDK, make sure to follow the instructions here.

To build the sample

  1. Open the solution file (.sln) in the subfolder of the sample in Visual Studio.
  2. Replace the guid in the following line (near the top of the sample) with your own Azure AppId:
winrt::guid remoteId{ "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"};
  1. Build the solution. Press Ctrl+Shift+B, or select Build > Build Solution.
  2. Debug the project. Press F5, or select Debug > Start Debugging.

The sample will display a WNS Channel URI which uniquely identify this app, for this user on this device and thus can be used by other apps (usually a server app) to send notifications to this specific app.

Receiving Notifications

Follow these instructions to send a notification to the sample.

  • Leave the sample running to receive notifications in the foreground.
  • Close the sample to receive notifications in the background.

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Common Issues

  • If there was an error obtaining the WNS Channel URI, make sure you've replaced the zero'ed out remote id (near the top of the sample) with your own remote id.