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Glossary

Toast notification

A pop-up notification shown by Windows on behalf of an app, kept in the notification center and in wpndatabase.db until it expires or is dismissed.

A toast is the notification type users see most: a small window with the app's name, a title, a few lines of text and optional images, buttons or a reply box. Its content is defined in XML following Microsoft's toast content schema. In wpndatabase.db a toast is a Notification row with Type = toast, and its XML is in the Payload column. See tables and columns explained.