Vote on this Whidbey Bug: How to create a Tray Icon (NotifyIcon) with WinForms 2.0
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[ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman's Weblog]
While Tray Icons (and applications that use ONLY TrayIcons as their UI) are a major part of our lives, there's limited support in WinForms (2.0) for them without resorting to P/Invoke and vestigial MainForms who only call this.Hide().
NotifyIcon should be extended to support BalloonHelp. Hans Blomme's now-famous extended version of NotifyIcon is the canonical example. It still works under 2.0, but the 2.0 addition of the ContextMenuStrip makes it a little tricky. His free stuff could be integrated into the 2.0 NotifyIcon easily, adding a powerful (and missing) feature to 2.0 WinForms. Additionally, there should be a way for a Form to startup hidden to avoid the flash of the form before it calls this.Hide(), deferring to it's NotifyIcon.
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