Test your Windows Phone 8 push notification using Scriptcs (remember to insert your push notification uri at line 6): scriptcs .\TestPush.csx -- "your test message"

TestPush.csx

using System.Net;

// Get the URI that the Microsoft Push Notification Service returns to the push client when creating a notification channel.
// Normally, a web service would listen for URIs coming from the web client and maintain a list of URIs to send
// notifications out to.
string subscriptionUri = "YOUR PUSH NOTIFICATION URL";


HttpWebRequest sendNotificationRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(subscriptionUri);

// Create an HTTPWebRequest that posts the raw notification to the Microsoft Push Notification Service.
// HTTP POST is the only method allowed to send the notification.
sendNotificationRequest.Method = "POST";

// Create the raw message.
string rawMessage = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>" +
"<root>" +
    "<Value1>"+ScriptArgs[0]+"<Value1>" +
"</root>";

// Set the notification payload to send.
byte[] notificationMessage = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(rawMessage);

// Set the web request content length.
sendNotificationRequest.ContentLength = notificationMessage.Length;
sendNotificationRequest.ContentType = "text/xml";
sendNotificationRequest.Headers.Add("X-NotificationClass", "3");


using (Stream requestStream = sendNotificationRequest.GetRequestStream())
{
    requestStream.Write(notificationMessage, 0, notificationMessage.Length);
}

// Send the notification and get the response.
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)sendNotificationRequest.GetResponse();
string notificationStatus = response.Headers["X-NotificationStatus"];
string notificationChannelStatus = response.Headers["X-SubscriptionStatus"];
string deviceConnectionStatus = response.Headers["X-DeviceConnectionStatus"];

// Display the response from the Microsoft Push Notification Service.  
// Normally, error handling code would be here. In the real world, because data connections are not always available,
// notifications may need to be throttled back if the device cannot be reached.