After I released the System Tray tile for the Sidebar, I’ve had quite a lot of PMs and emails regarding interacting with the tray from .Net. So I’ve written this short tutorial for you all to go through to help with any difficulties you might have been having. It’s written with C# source code.
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For anyone who has dabbled in the alternative shell world, with a this should also allow you to create an application which acts as the system tray itself, without explorer running.
Thanks! Great tutorial, but are you still planning on telling us how to resize the taskbar and change its layout?
YAY! Thanks a lot but eh… I VB.Net… not C#
Ah heck, I’ll translate, I can.
Ah, I’ve done similar things before when controlling window states… Does anyone mind if I translate this tut to VB?
http://labs.developerfusion.co.uk/convert/csharp-to-vb.aspx
Tierro, go for it man. I’ll add it to the front page once you’re done.
Why not use Shell_NotifyIcon()
nice job but win32 already has a function that does almost all the dirty work for you..
http://www.webtropy.com/articles/art9-1.asp?f=Shell_NotifyIcon
Shell_NotifyIcon doesn’t do anything this tutorial is about. It doesn’t give you information about current SysTray icons.
Wow thanks for this Karl. i asked you a few times and tought you have forgot. 1000 times Thank you for this tutorial..
I have already translated this Tutorial to VB so if anyoned needs it message me.
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Hello,
Patrick G. or anyone could you pls send me or post the vb.net code of this? Since i’m getting error converting it.
Thanks;
Hi,
I’m new to all this but looking to do something similar. Can you pls provide a full source listing? I’m having trouble trying to get it working (as in, I’m missing a lot of details because I don’t understand). Thanks.
Ok, I think I’ve managed to figure most of the missing pieces out. What’s the terms of your source code? I’d like to use it for a public made freely available plugin for Find and Run Robot. I’ve had to adjust a few data types to get it running, but I think it’s still safe(ish)
If I can use it, what credit towards it would you like? Credit in the source and plugin?