While UWP adds some restrictions in what you can do to the machine you're on, you can make REST calls to outside services, opening up some interesting IoT possibilities. I threw together a quick-and-dirty wrapper around a simple notification call through the Pushover.net service. It demonstrates how you can construct a REST call (in this case, an HTTP POST with a JSON payload) and fire information to another service. This example involves adding a command to the CustomVoiceCommandDefinitions.xml file, and linking that command to a new entry in CortanaFunctions.cs.
crclayton
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While UWP adds some restrictions in what you can do to the machine you're on, you can make REST calls to outside services, opening up some interesting IoT possibilities. I threw together a quick-and-dirty wrapper around a simple notification call through the Pushover.net service. It demonstrates how you can construct a REST call (in this case, an HTTP POST with a JSON payload) and fire information to another service. This example involves adding a command to the CustomVoiceCommandDefinitions.xml file, and linking that command to a new entry in CortanaFunctions.cs.