WinForms.NotifyIcon doesn't vanish when program ends

[ForrestPhoto]

I would think it should disappear on its own when the application ends
- if you have a main form and others, they'll all close when the user
kills the main form. In any case, I override the OnClosing method and
set notifyicon1.Visible = false, but still, after my program ends, the
icon is left behind in the notification area.

I've seen the same thing pretty often with SQL Server Management Studio
2005. Is this just a bug inherent to that control, or is there
something I can do about it?

Thanks!

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

You have to actively remove the notify icon during your ordered program
shutdown otherwise it stays there. Actually this is common if
undesirable behaviour for many programs.

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Fo**********@gmail.com wrote:

I would think it should disappear on its own when the application ends
- if you have a main form and others, they'll all close when the user
kills the main form. In any case, I override the OnClosing method and
set notifyicon1.Visible = false, but still, after my program ends, the
icon is left behind in the notification area.

I've seen the same thing pretty often with SQL Server Management Studio
2005. Is this just a bug inherent to that control, or is there
something I can do about it?

Thanks!

[ForrestPhoto]

You have to actively remove the notify icon during your ordered program

shutdown otherwise it stays there. Actually this is common if
undesirable behaviour for many programs.

I noticed this is pretty common; it happens with the out-of-the-box
IDE for SQL. I tried making a public method of the main form, and then
calling it as one of the last statements in Program.cs:main() and it
works beautifully. Thanks! This was the last thing holding me back
from a new beta release of an FTP client I've been writing:
http://forrestcroce.com/Software/WebMaestro.html
Forrest