RE: toast notification messages

2010-08-09 Thread Ian Thomas
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

Re: toast notification messages

2010-08-09 Thread Stephen Price
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

Re: toast notification messages

2010-08-09 Thread Michael Minutillo
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

Re: toast notification messages

2010-08-09 Thread Stephen Price
I've seen that before. Nice on a developer's machine, but don't have that much control over the machines of general public. (ie clients). I will mention it but suspect something integrated will be the way to go. Still at the stage of discussing ideas, but they liked the sound of popup toast

RE: toast notification messages

2010-08-09 Thread Ian Thomas
Stephen, I forgot you're primarily a WPF aficionado. There is a WPF NotifyIcon article at CodeProject, which I saw and discounted (thinking you wanted something straight from the Windows API or .NET frameworks). http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/wpf_notifyicon.aspx

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Re: I don't like Linq to Entities

2010-08-09 Thread Neil Young
Bang on Craig. Single does a SELECT TOP (2) when it generates the SQL. On 9 August 2010 14:53, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.com wrote: Single() shouldn't have to find all results, it just has to check if there is more than one. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Michael Minutillo