C# Creating A Program That Runs In The Background?

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How can I create a program that runs in the background, and can be accessed via the Windows' "Notification Area" (Where the date and time are in the lower right hand corner)?

In other words, I want to be able to create a program that runs and can toggle between having a display window and not having a display window.

Checkout this answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/46918/whats-the-proper-way-to-minimize-to-tray-a-c-winforms-app/47743#47743 in a related question. — Jorge Ferreira, May 25 '10 at 22:18

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered May 25 '10 at 22:29

Drag and drop a NotifyIcon and a ContextMenuStrip.
Set de NotifyIcon's context menu to the one you added
Add 2 menuitems (e.g. Restore, Exit)

Set the Form event resize and do the following check

private void MyForm_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (this.WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized) this.Hide();
    else this.Show();
}

// you could also restore the window with a
// double click on the notify icon
private void notifyIcon1_MouseDoubleClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    this.Show();
    this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal;
}

For a example can download this project

Don't worry about the right click event, the NotifyIcon will automatically detect it and show the ContextMenu

C# Creating A Program That Runs In The Background?

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