ToastNotificationManagerCompat Set Application Title

[Daniellled]

I am creating a WPF application that uses ToastNotificationManagerCompat to display Toast Notifications. I have noticed that the title that is displayed to the user appears to correspond to the Assembly Title contained within my AssemblyInfo.cs. Is it possible to change that value and even localize it?

For example in the attached screenshot, I am referring to the text "Docker Desktop"

If I was not using ToastNotificationManagerCompat I would need to setup AppUserModelIDs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/appids. What options do I have available as a Non-MSIX WPF application?

[michael-hawker]

@andrewleader any insights here on this question?

[andrewleader]

Hi @Daniellled, thanks for asking this, and this is a timely question as the platform team is working on adding notification APIs to Windows App SDK (which would replace these APIs) and this is one of the topics we're exploring!

Will your app have a Start menu shortcut? If it has a Start menu shortcut, the Toast compat library should use the shortcut's display name, so hopefully that would support localization... let me know if it doesn't.

If your app doesn't have a shortcut, then I think there currently isn't a solution in the existing Toolkit for you, but as I mentioned the notification team is actively building the new notification APIs in Windows App SDK which will replace this functionality, so now is the perfect time to ensure your scenario is supported. The goal in the APIs is to ensure that you don't have to do anything special for notification display assets, the display assets your app already provides for taskbar and Start just works (we don't want to invent a completely new and separate way of specifying your assets just for notifications).

The team is currently looking into AppUserModelIds, do you think you'd be able to set the process AUMID and then set the RelaunchDisplayNameResource? I've briefly looked into those docs but it sounds like the Relaunch properties are only for when you have multiple windows with separate AUMIDs, any chance you know whether you can set the DisplayName for the single main process AUMID without a shortcut?

[Daniellled]

@andrewleader

Will your app have a Start menu shortcut? If it has a Start menu shortcut, the Toast compat library should use the shortcut's display name, so hopefully that would support localization... let me know if it doesn't.
At this moment we are unsure if we will have a Start menu shortcut. It may be possible the shortcut points to a different application.

The team is currently looking into AppUserModelIds, do you think you'd be able to set the process AUMID and then set the RelaunchDisplayNameResource? I've briefly looked into those docs but it sounds like the Relaunch properties are only for when you have multiple windows with separate AUMIDs, any chance you know whether you can set the DisplayName for the single main process AUMID without a shortcut?

Can you expand further on what this means?

[andrewleader]

@Daniellled basically, does your app have a Start menu shortcut? A.k.a. does it appear in the Start menu apps list? And if so, does your app in the apps list have a localized name?

[Daniellled]

@Daniellled basically, does your app have a Start menu shortcut? A.k.a. does it appear in the Start menu apps list? And if so, does your app in the apps list have a localized name?

Our app may be a collection of applications. Our Start menu app will be more of a launcher. That launch will start my application. It is my application that will be displaying the notifications.

[andrewleader]

Thanks @Daniellled, makes sense, and will each of your "applications" be separate EXEs? Or are they all in one EXE?

[Daniellled]

Thanks @Daniellled, makes sense, and will each of your "applications" be separate EXEs? Or are they all in one EXE?

Separate EXEs