Force Windows to show a system tray icon

Question

This is a pretty stupid question, but here goes:

Is there a way (in .net) to force Windows to show your system tray icon instead of hiding it? I don\'t want to do t

Answer 1

There is no way to force it to be visible (as noted above, and rightly so), however if you show a balloon notification (like Windows Live Messenger does when you first try to close the window), your icon will appear while the balloon is visible. You could also use this to draw attention to your app to say "look at me, I'm down here!".

Please, for the sake of your users, make it only do this once, at most, though!