The document discusses notifications for Windows apps. It explains that notifications can have square or wide tiles, support up to 99 numbers or predefined glyphs, and always be legible on images. It also outlines the three steps services need to take to support notifications: 1) Request a Channel URI, 2) Register with the cloud service, and 3) Authenticate and push notifications. Finally, it provides examples of how to accomplish these steps using different Azure services like Compute and Storage.

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10. Square (1x1) Wide (2x1)

13. Overlays status on top of tile
Supports square and wide tiles
Number up to 99 or pre-defined glyph:
Always legible on top of images
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27. 1. Request Channel URI
2. Register with your Cloud Service
3. Authenticate & Push Notification

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31. What a service needs to support How do I do that with Windows
Azure? Channel URI
Request
Secure, web based API for channel URI
registration. Windows Azure ComputeService
Register with your Cloud
Persistent storage of channel URI. Authenticate & Push Notification
• Web Role
• Full IIS support
Storage for tile and toast images. • WCF REST and ASP.NET MVC
Windows Azure Storage
• Table Storage
• Blob Storage

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