> 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 > > > > >