How to add running application into system tray?

Question

Hi All I want to write a program to add some application into system tray and hide it. Who can guide me which class I should use? I used Process class to get Name and but I don't know how I can get applications in Taskbar to hide and add it into system tray. Please help me! Thanks

Alex · Answer

First you drag on a NotifyIcon from your toolbox on to the designer. Then set the Icon property the Text property the BaloonTipText property and the BaloonTipTitle property. For good measure set the BaloonTipIcon property as well. Once that's done add an event handler to you're Form's resized event like so: void Form1_Resize(object sender EventArgs e) { if (this.WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized) { Hide(); notifyIcon1.Visible = true; notifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(10); } else { notifyIcon1.Visible = false; } } This will hide the form from the taskbar show the notification icon baloon for like 10 seconds and then just sit in the system tray. You'll then also want to add a context menu to your notifyIcon to restore the app. You can do something like this: ContextMenu menu = new ContextMenu(); menu.MenuItems.Add(new MenuItem(Restore(oe)=>{ this.Show(); this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal; })); this.notifyIcon1.ContextMenu = menu; Hope that helps.