how to: baloon notification for NotifyIcon

[Ram Baruch]

Hi,
I have a NotifyIcon object. The user sees it near the clock on the desktop.
Now, I want to tell the user that something happend (Like when Windows says
that updates are ready to be installed)- a small baloon that comes out of
the icon.
Does anyone knows how to do it?
Regards,
Ram.

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Ram,

The NotifyIcon class doesn't have support for this, I believe. In order
to do this, you would have to access the API directly.

There is an article on CodeProject.com detailing how to do this. It is
titled "Displaying a Notify Icon's Balloon Tool Tip" and can be located at
(watch for line wrap):

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/notifyballoon.asp

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Ram Baruch" <ra*********@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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Hi,
I have a NotifyIcon object. The user sees it near the clock on the desktop. Now, I want to tell the user that something happend (Like when Windows says that updates are ready to be installed)- a small baloon that comes out of
the icon.
Does anyone knows how to do it?
Regards,
Ram.

[Saurabh]

I had done it in Win32 and I would like to add that I had to get platform
SDK updates for the balloon thing,

--Saurabh
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in
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Ram,

The NotifyIcon class doesn't have support for this, I believe. In order to do this, you would have to access the API directly.

There is an article on CodeProject.com detailing how to do this. It is titled "Displaying a Notify Icon's Balloon Tool Tip" and can be located at
(watch for line wrap):

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/notifyballoon.asp

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Ram Baruch" <ra*********@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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Hi,
I have a NotifyIcon object. The user sees it near the clock on the

desktop.

Now, I want to tell the user that something happend (Like when Windows

says

that updates are ready to be installed)- a small baloon that comes out of the icon.
Does anyone knows how to do it?
Regards,
Ram.

[Ram Baruch]

its ok, I used the example and it works for me.
Thanks!

"Saurabh" <sa*****@nagpurcity.net> wrote in message
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I had done it in Win32 and I would like to add that I had to get platform
SDK updates for the balloon thing,

--Saurabh
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in message news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Ram,

The NotifyIcon class doesn't have support for this, I believe. In

order

to do this, you would have to access the API directly.

There is an article on CodeProject.com detailing how to do this. It

is

titled "Displaying a Notify Icon's Balloon Tool Tip" and can be located at

(watch for line wrap):

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/notifyballoon.asp

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Ram Baruch" <ra*********@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:Oc**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hi,
I have a NotifyIcon object. The user sees it near the clock on the

desktop.

Now, I want to tell the user that something happend (Like when Windows

says

that updates are ready to be installed)- a small baloon that comes out

of the icon.
Does anyone knows how to do it?
Regards,
Ram.