Push Notifications Types

Windows Phone supports the following three types of push notifications:

Toast notification—A systemwide notification that is shown for a few seconds at the top of the phone’s display.

Tile notification—Displays information using a tile on the Start Experience (home screen).

Raw notification—Offers a completely flexible manner for delivering notifications to your running app. The OS does not display a raw notification, but rather the notification message is sent directly to your running app.