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Adding your application to the System Tray on minimization

Posted Date: 21 May 2008	Resource Type: Code Snippets	Category: Application windows, menus & toolbars
Author: Payal Jain	Member Level: Gold
Rating:	Points: 10

Introduction

This code will help you to add your application to the System Tray. and then restore it from the icon displayed in the system tray.

Control used

notifyIcon control is used to add your application to System Tray.

description and code

1. first of all open your existing application.
2. drag and drop NotifyIcon control on to the form. note: it will be placed below the form as it has no visual representation of itself.
3.now set some properties of notifyIcon control:
Name: as you want to name it . by default it is notifyIcon1.
Text: the text you want to appear as a user points to the icon in the system tray.
Icon: the icon to be displayed for the application in the system tray.

4.Add an event handler for the forms resize event handler and place the code as below.

private void SystemTrayIcon_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (FormWindowState.Minimized == WindowState)
{
Hide();
}
}

this will add an icon to the application in the system tray when user clicks the minimize button.

5. to restore the application on double clicking the system tray icon. add an event handler for notifyIcon double click event and write the code as:

private void notifyIcon1_DoubleClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Show();
WindowState= FormWindowState.Normal;
}

6.you can also add context menu on right click of notifiIcon in system tray.for that design a contextmenuStrip and specify contextmenuStrip id in contextMenuStrip Property of notifyIcon control.

7.you can also add ballontip displyed on minimizing the application to system tray for that you will need to call showballontip() method on notifyIcon control before hide() function in resize event handler for the form.

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