Hello:
Found a couple of great articles on how to put a tray icon on the taskbar,
and that has worked out almost fine...(but do have a question about it
below)...
Now on to step two: wiring up its click event to a Menu to show various
possible secondary forms, and Exit the app all together.
This brings up two questions:
a) how to start that first form minimized, so that it is never seen, and is
just a container for a Context Menu? With Visible=false, Location set to
-1000,-1000, Size set to 0,0...still shows up.
b) In CE there appears to be no ShowPopup like in desktop. How do I wire up
the Tray icon to show a menu? Can I use the MainMenu instead btw?
c) The tray icon code I am using is variations of the classic NOTIFYICONDATA
solution...which are all relying on a IntPtr to the Exe's embedded icon.
Anyway to get this to be more dynamic so that I can use the icon to show
WebAccess status back to a server, or other metrics?
And, seeing that this just might be the wrong way of going about this, might
as well ask: anybody have a smarter solution to show a tray icon, and
associate it to a context menu, but not show the form?