Send push notification over notification hub in azure mobile services

Question

I'm trying to find out I way to send push notification over notifications hub in azure mobile services to windows phone users. I tried several ways like this. But there's no sent message.

hub.mpns.sendToast("PushChannel", template, sendComplete);

Registration to services in wp I done like this:

var channel = HttpNotificationChannel.Find("cQuestPushChannel");
if (channel == null){
    channel = new HttpNotificationChannel("cQuestPushChannel");
    channel.Open();
    channel.BindToShellToast();
}

string[] tagsToSubscribeTo = { "xxx" };

channel.ChannelUriUpdated += new EventHandler<NotificationChannelUriEventArgs>(async (o, args) =>
        {
            var hub = new NotificationHub("***", "***");
            await hub.RegisterNativeAsync(args.ChannelUri.ToString());
        });

This registration works fine when and I can send test notifications over debug in azure.

What I am doing wrong?

Beside that, how to add some tag in function for sending notification?

lobuljen lobuljen · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-04T21:41:00

After some research I found right way to send push notifications to wp 8. There's great example and explanation here.

Basically here is function what makes notification and send it to tagged devices.

function sendToastHubMpns(text1, text2, tagExpression)
{
    var azure = require("azure");
    var notificationHubService = azure.createNotificationHubService('hub_name', 
'hub_key');

    var toast = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>" +
    "<wp:Notification xmlns:wp=\"WPNotification\">" +
        "<wp:Toast>" +
            "<wp:Text1>" + text1 + "</wp:Text1>" +
            "<wp:Text2>" + text2 + "</wp:Text2>" +
        "</wp:Toast> " +
    "</wp:Notification>";

    notificationHubService.mpns.send(tagExpression, toast, "toast", 2, function(error) {
    if (error) {
        console.error(error);
    }});
}

I home this will help someone in future. And lots thanks to Geoff and his blog.

Send push notification over notification hub in azure mobile services

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