BurntToast

BurntToast

Finally, Introducing the First Preview of BurntToast v1

It may have taken 10 months, but preview releases are finally coming for BurntToast v1.

By Josh King 12 Feb 2022

BurntToast

Road to BurntToast v1: Actionable Toast for All!

BurntToast is finally growing up. It's going through puberty and will see a v1 release when it gets to the other side... but it'll be a journey.

By Josh King 21 Apr 2021

BurntToast

Crouton #15 - You Can't Silence Toast

Focus assist is a favoured tool of practiced speakers and presenters on Windows. It does put you in a bit of a bind if the thing you're presenting requires notifications though.

By Josh King 1 Feb 2021

PowerShell

Actionable Toast Notifications, Finally Cracked Them!

I don't know how to express a happy dance with text. If I could that's what would be here because I've finally removed a thorn from my side that's been there for five years.

By Josh King 8 Aug 2020

PowerShell

The Anatomy of Toast

BurntToast just turned five, and I've only now realized that I've never written about how all the module's "advanced" functions work together to create a toast notification.

By Josh King 29 Jul 2020

BurntToast

Crouton #14 - Fancy Buttons

It's all well and good putting buttons all over your toast notification, but text is a little plain. Let's see how we can dress out buttons up a little bit!

By Josh King 23 Jan 2020

BurntToast

Crouton #13 - Hitting Snooze

Hitting snooze on your alarm clock is probably rather common. Let's take a look at how you can do the same thing with your Toast Notifications.

By Josh King 21 Nov 2019

BurntToast

Crouton #12 - Toasting in Many Tongues (Tōhi o nga reo maha)

Toast notification data bindings have a number of uses. We've already covered updating toasts, now let's teach our notifications a second language.

By Josh King 31 Jul 2019

BurntToast

Crouton #11 - Updating Toast Notifications, Gracefully

Following the release of BurntToast v0.7.0 there were a couple of headline features that needed to be written about. Shoulder Taps had their time in the spotlight and now it's the turn of Updatable Toasts.

By Josh King 17 Jul 2019

BurntToast

Crouton #10 - Cold Shoulder (Taps)

If you can forgive incomplete help, the latest update of BurntToast has some cool new features. First one we'll be covering is Shoulder Taps!

By Josh King 2 Apr 2019

PowerShell

Everything Is Better with Toast: Getting Build Notifications

When you want to keep an eye on build results, but don't want to dedicate a screen to the web page, toast is the answer!

By Josh King 9 Feb 2019

BurntToast

Crouton #8 Redux - Now with a More Complete Example

I didn't do the best job of the examples in my original post on this topic. Let's put that right.

By Josh King 10 Jan 2019

BurntToast

Crouton #9 - Free, with Attribution

Where did that toast come from? Who cooked it?! If only it was attributed to someone...

By Josh King 4 Oct 2018

BurntToast

Crouton #8 - I like Your Code, but I Don't Want It on All My Computers

I get you; you like toast, but you don't want to put a toaster on 100 desks.

By Josh King 21 Aug 2018

PowerShell

Downloading an Image for Local Use

This has been sitting as an open issue on the project for a long time and given how quick of a fix it was I'm disappointed that I didn't get to it sooner.

By Josh King 28 May 2018