.NET System Tray Application (How To:)

[SiriusBlackOp]

Anyone here ever used VB.NET 2005 to build a System Tray Application? This is one type of app that I’ve never had to build before and I’m looking for someone who might know/have a good example or tutorial of some sort to get me started.

The project I’m on now is to build a small application that lives only in the system tray as an Icon. It will utilize an API to capture events in a 3rd party Application and thus do things like advanced input validation.

It can’t be a Service due to permissions, so I need something that runs invisible to the user like a service but also runs like an application within the user session. Thus this system tray application came to mind.

I’ve seen some VB6 examples before, but I’m hoping this has gotten easier since then. VB.NET 2003 examples would also be a help, but I prefer 2005.


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[SiriusBlackOp]

I guess I'll start down this path.

http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/chrisrenfrow.asp

Seems straight forward enough.

If anyone has a better method then I would be happy to hear it.

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[SgtJarrow]

Sirius is right...that's how I do it. You add a notify icon to your app, make sure the app runs minimized and hidden and include a content menu if you want to have a menu to interact with (for starting/stopping/restoring, etc)

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