I am trying to learn how to show Toast notifications from my program which is native c++ console application registered as a windows service.
I learnt that Toasts are part of the windows runtime UI components; So does this mean I have to develop a GUI component for my product in order to be able to send Toasts?
Yes it might be possible check this link Here Certain WinRT classes can be used from desktop apps, including portions of the Windows.UI namespace. The toast notification APIs are one such example - they can be used by both Windows Store apps and desktop apps