Sending an application to the system tray

[deoblo1]

I want my application to insted of closing go to the system tray and display an icon there, much like seti at home, aim, yahoo messenger, and kazaa. is there an easy way to do that in .net? I know for starters i will have to over ride the close box on my application, but from there i have no clue.

[Pirate]

Yes , it easy job in .NET . You can use NotifyIcon .

[deoblo1]

and i may be dumb, but umm how do i do that? or where is it? because i have never attempted to do something like this, and i remember seeing how to do it but that was like 2 years ago.

[Pirate]

I'll try to do you a small demo .

[deoblo1]

hmm ok, u dont work too hard on it, unless u enjoy doing it.

[Pirate]

Here you go . It's VS.NET 2003 Proj .

[Kasracer]

This interests me too.... I'd like to know how to make an icon display at RUN TIME and have a context menu when you right click the icon, but no actual program like a form or something

[Pirate]

Originally posted by kasracer
This interests me too.... I'd like to know how to make an icon display at RUN TIME and have a context menu when you right click the icon, but no actual program like a form or something

That's easy too . Just bind your context menu to the NotifyIcon and in the mousedown event show your context menu .

[Kasracer]

Thanks Pirate... I'll mess with this later, it's for a later project. Right now I'm more concerned with an editor I'm making.