Application #36. Create a System Tray Icon
A common task in Windows programming is adding an icon to the Windows system tray. In Visual Basic 6.0, there was no such built-in functionality. Developers either had to resort to using Win32 APIs or a third-party control. With the release of Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic developers were finally able to use the system tray—right out of the box. This sample application demonstrates how to do exactly that: create an application that displays a notification icon in the system tray. Various properties and events will be demonstrated, including the ability to associate a context-sensitive menu with the icon. To make things a bit more interesting, the context-sensitive menu will be used to provide an introduction ...
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