Notification Area Icon in C# Windows Forms

Introduction

In Windows there is a Taskbar with a Notification area (historically known as the system tray or status area) with icons. Typically in the bottom-right a notification icon notifies the user of certain information.

Example: we generally have some software installed in our machine and we periodically get the following notifications.





We can create a notification icon using C# Windows Forms as per requirements.

The following is a snapshot of an notification icon that pops up when the user starts the application.



Procedure

1. Add a Windows application
   
   
   
2. Add a NotifyIcon as in the screen below.
   
   
   
3. the following control will be added (notiyicon) to the application:
   
   
   
4. Add the following code to the form:
   
   
   1. protected void Displaynotify()
   2. {
   3. try
   4. {
   5. notifyIcon1.Icon = new System.Drawing.Icon(Path.GetFullPath(@"image\graph.ico"));
   6. notifyIcon1.Text = "Export Datatable Utlity";
   7. notifyIcon1.Visible = true;
   8. notifyIcon1.BalloonTipTitle = "Welcome Devesh omar to Datatable Export Utlity";
   9. notifyIcon1.BalloonTipText = "Click Here to see details";
   10. notifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(100);
   11. }
   12. catch (Exception ex)
   13. {
       
   14. }
   15. }
       
   
   
5. Call the preceding method at form_load as in the following:
   
   
   1. private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
   2. {
   3. Displaynotify();
   4. }
      
   
   
6. Complete Code:
   
   
7. Running the application:
   
   
   
   
8. Go to the bottom-right status bar as in the following:
   
   
   
9. Handling events:
   
   Right-click on the notifyincon to see the property window:
   
   
   
10. Add code for the notifyicon click as in the following:
    
    
    1. private void notifyIcon1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    2. {
    3. MessageBox.Show("DEVESH !!! you clicked on notifyicon");
    4. }
       
    
    
11. Run the code and click on the following icon:
    
    
    
    

Conclusion

We have learned the basics of notifyicons in C# Windoes Forms.