Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
30 lines (22 loc) · 2.59 KB

notifyicon-component-overview-windows-forms.md

File metadata and controls

30 lines (22 loc) · 2.59 KB
Raw
title description ms.date f1_keywords helpviewer_keywords ms.assetid
NotifyIcon Component Overview
This article presents an overview of the NotifyIcon component in Windows Forms, which is used to display icons for processes that run in the background.
03/30/2017
NotifyIcon
NotifyIcon component [Windows Forms], about NotifyIcon component
system tray icons [Windows Forms], about system tray icons
system tray icons [Windows Forms], using in Windows Forms
5b9189fa-d4ae-41a6-9b97-eb1f44bb1a69

NotifyIcon Component Overview (Windows Forms)

The Windows Forms xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon component is typically used to display icons for processes that run in the background and do not show a user interface much of the time. An example would be a virus protection program that can be accessed by clicking an icon in the status notification area of the taskbar.

Key Properties of NotifyIcons

Each xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon component displays a single icon in the status area. If you have three background processes and wish to display an icon for each, you must add three xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon components to the form. The key properties of the xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon component are xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.Icon%2A and xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.Visible%2A. The xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.Icon%2A property sets the icon that appears in the status area. In order for the icon to appear, the xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.Visible%2A property must be set to true.

NotifyIcons Options

You can associate balloon tips, shortcut menus, and ToolTips with a xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon to assist the user.

You can display balloon tips for a xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon by calling the xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip%2A method specifying the time span you wish the balloon tip to display. You can also specify the text, icon and title of the balloon tip with the xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.BalloonTipText%2A, xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.BalloonTipIcon%2A and xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.BalloonTipTitle%2A, respectively. xref:System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon components can also have associated ToolTips and shortcut menus. For more information, see ToolTip Component Overview and ContextMenu Component Overview.

See also