.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell

Name

NotifyIcon

Synopsis

This class creates an icon in the system tray. You can specify the tooltip Text (which must be fewer than 64 characters), the actual Icon itself, and a ContextMenu. You can also show and hide the icon with the Visible property.

Various events are provided to which you can bind to handle Click, DoubleClick, MouseDown, MouseUp, and MouseMove events while the control is visible.

Note that there is no support for the Windows 2000 and above balloon pop-ups, just the standard tooltips.

public sealed class NotifyIcon : System.ComponentModel.Component {

// Public Constructors

   public NotifyIcon();

   public NotifyIcon(System.ComponentModel.IContainer container);

// Public Instance Properties

   public ContextMenu ContextMenu{set; get; }

   public Icon Icon{set; get; }

   public string Text{set; get; }

   public bool Visible{set; get; }

// Protected Instance Methods

   protected override void Dispose(bool disposing);  // overrides System.ComponentModel.Component

                  // Events

   public event EventHandler Click;

   public event EventHandler DoubleClick;

   public event MouseEventHandler MouseDown;

   public event MouseEventHandler MouseMove;

   public event MouseEventHandler MouseUp;

}

Hierarchy

System.Object → System.MarshalByRefObject → System.ComponentModel.Component(System.ComponentModel.IComponen, System.IDisposable) → NotifyIcon