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" messages similar to outlook. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Michael Minutillo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] >> > [mailto:[email protected]] >> > 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 >> > >> > > >
