Windows Phone 7 Notifications/Pop/Toasts

Question

If there a way to display a normal Notification/Toast/Popup in Windows Phone 7, which is not a Push Notification?

All I want to do is to be able to give the user a message when something occurs...

Answer 1

I assume you wish to display something while your application is not running in the foregorund. Because, when your application runs in the foreground, you can do whatever you want.

Your application can't run in the background, therefore you don't really have any means of invoking anything. This means you can't really display a message when somethien occurs.

What exectly occurs on the phone that you need to notify the user? Is that really not back-end related?

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Answer 2

You can use MessageBox.Show(), though this creates a modal dialog box.