Minimizing an application into tray

Asked Jul 24 '14 at 13:24

Active Jul 24 '14 at 13:25

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I am not sure of what I'm doing wrong here:

private void MainWindow_OnClosing(object sender, CancelEventArgs e) 
{
      var ni = new System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon
      {
            Icon = new System.Drawing.Icon("Img/trayicon.ico"), 
            Visible = true
      };

      this.Hide();
      e.Cancel = true;
}

When the user tries to close the window, MainWindow_OnClosing is triggered via Closing="MainWindow_OnClosing" in the xaml. There, I cancel the closing with e.Cancel = true and attempt to hide the window into a tray icon with the rest of the code above. But all that happens is that the content of the window is filled with a black color and thats it.

Upon clicking the close button the debug console prints out A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in PresentationFramework.dll

But I am not sure if that has to do anything with it, since I know the icon picture exists within that folder in the project.

edited Jul 24 '14 at 13:25

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asked Jul 24 '14 at 13:24

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I would also notice, you're creating an icon and not doing anything with it. – Tarec Jul 24 '14 at 13:29
Well damn, it does. But how is that possible? The icon is in the project's folder and is set as resource. – user3595338 Jul 24 '14 at 13:30
I don't think that's the way you're accessing resources. – Tarec Jul 24 '14 at 13:32
I access them like this all over my application and it works everywhere for example " " in the xaml part of the file works no problem. And arrows.png is also set as resource the same way as the tray icon is. – user3595338 Jul 24 '14 at 13:33
You forgot `UriKind.Relative`. – Sinatr Jul 24 '14 at 14:05

Minimizing an application into tray

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