NotifyIcon remains in Tray even after application closing but disappears on Mouse Hover

Question

There are many questions on SO asking same doubt. Solution for this is to set

notifyIcon.icon = null and calling Dispose for it in FormClo

Answer 1

I tried all of these and none of them worked for me. After thinking about it for a while I realized that the application creating the "balloon" was exiting before it had a chance to actually dispose of the balloon. I added a while loop just before Application.Exit() containing an Application.DoEvents() command. This allowed my NotifyIcon1_BalloonTipClosed to actually finish disposing of the icon before exiting.

while (notifyIcon1.Visible)
{
    Application.DoEvents();
}
Application.Exit();

And the tip closed method: (You need to include the thisIcon.visible = false in order for this to work)

private void NotifyIcon1_BalloonTipClosed(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var thisIcon = (NotifyIcon)sender;
    thisIcon.Icon = null;
    thisIcon.Visible = false;
    thisIcon.Dispose();
}