notifyicon

I am trying to create a C# application that runs in tray where I can drop files on it's icon. Is there any way to get the path of the file dropped on the System Tray icon? System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon does not have any events related to drag and drop. Werewolve it's not possible to do this, the easy way. You can show a dummy Form, if the cursor is in a special area near the notifyicon. The dummy Form can get the filepath of the droped file. It has az example, but it's not fully and written in C++ :( DragnDropOnTrayIcon It actually is possible to do with a slightly hacky method. Fluffy App

There are many questions on SO asking same doubt. Solution for this is to set notifyIcon.icon = null and calling Dispose for it in FormClosing event. In my application, there is no such form but has Notification icon which updates on Events. On creation, I hide my form and make ShowInTaskbar property false . Hence I can not have a "FormClosing" or "FormClosed" events. If this application gets event to exit, It calls Process.GetCurrentProcess().Kill(); to exit. I have added notifyIcon.icon = null as well as Dispose before killing, but still icon remains taskbar until I hover mouse over it. EDIT

I am finished making my application and now I want to incorporate " minimizing into the system tray feature " for it . I read up a good article minimize app to system tray . I realized that these make use of the Windows.Form class . Unfortunately I have used Windows Presentation Foundation WPF reference to make my applications UI . Now I see that the NotifyIcon is not supported in WPF. I see that there is an open source library on CodePlex that simulates the NotifyIcon properties WPF Contrib I have not used it as yet . Now I am in a fix . Here are my questions :- a) I don't want to incorporate

I'm trying to use the below code to show a Balloon notification. I've verified that it's being executed by using breakpoints. It's also showing no errors. What should I do to debug this since it's not throwing errors and not showing the balloon? private void showBalloon(string title, string body) { NotifyIcon notifyIcon = new NotifyIcon(); notifyIcon.Visible = true; if (title != null) { notifyIcon.BalloonTipTitle = title; } if (body != null) { notifyIcon.BalloonTipText = body; } notifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip(30000); } You have not actually specified an icon to display in the task bar. Running your

I want to minimize a C# WinForms app to system tray. I've tried this: Having the application minimize to the system tray when button is clicked? . The first time I minimize it, it's nowhere to be found on the screen - taskbar/above taskbar/tray. If i hit alt tab, I can see my app there; if I alt tab into it and minimize it again, it shows up above the taskbar: What am I doing wrong? What about the option of hiding the form when minimized then showing once you click on the tray icon? In the form resize event, do the check there and hide the form private void Form_Resize(object sender, EventArgs

I want to have it such that left clicking on the NotifyIcon also causes the context menu (set with the ContextMenuStrip property) to open as well. How would I achieve this? Do I have to handle Click and figure out the positioning myself? Edit: showing the menu with trayIcon.ContextMenuStrip.Show() results is a few undesirable behaviors: The menu is not shown at the same location as if right click the NotifyIcon (it appears that you can't set the x and y coords to where the taskbar is, at least on Windows 7 which is what I'm running). It will appear above the task bar (not that big of a deal,