> I'm not sure if that's what I found last time (it may well be) but I
was sure it was either WPF or Win7, and hence "newer/fancier".
There's also a few custom ones about, I've found since my post earlier.

If you can convince you users/clients to install it then Growl for Windows
was surprisingly easy to use. And it has a .NET binding as well.

http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Stephen Price <step...@littlevoices.com>wrote:

> thanks Ian.
>
> "Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) does not provide a notification
> icon implementation. However, the Microsoft .NET Framework does
> provide one: NotifyIcon, which is located in the System.Windows.Forms
> namespace. which this sample uses. This sample demonstrates how to
> configure and display a notification icon in the system tray using
> NotifyIcon."
>
> That helps. Now I know where to go looking for it...
>
> I'm not sure if that's what I found last time (it may well be) but I
> was sure it was either WPF or Win7, and hence "newer/fancier".
> There's also a few custom ones about, I've found since my post earlier.
>
> cheers,
> Stephen
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Ian Thomas <il.tho...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > Oops - You can tell I don't do NotifyIcon popups at all!
> >
> > See
> >
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.notifyicon.aspx
> >
> >
> > The NotifyIcon Class is very complete. ShowBalloonTip() is the "toast" /
> > popup.
> > ________________________________
> > Ian Thomas
> > Victoria Park, Western Australia
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
> > On Behalf Of Ian Thomas
> > Sent: Monday, 9 August 2010 3:44 PM
> > To: 'ozDotNet'
> > Subject: RE: toast notification messages
> >
> > Maybe? Win7 interface ITaskbarList3, or some Win32 programming with
> > Shell_NotifyIcon() - probably needs callbacks to be useful.
> >
> > ________________________________
> > Ian Thomas
> > Victoria Park, Western Australia
> >
> >
>

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