How can I display two or more icons in systray using C# and WPF(or WinForms) like Office 2010 beta's "Send a smile/frown"?

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Hello everybody. Can you give me some suggestion of how can I display two or more icons in systray using C# and WPF(or WinForms) like Office 2010 beta's "Send a smile/frown" function? These icons should have the ability to handle user's click/doubleclick, not just an icon displayed there.

Thanks a lot.

Posted 11-Mar-10 20:47pm

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Vineeth, your suggestion is very useful, thank you very much!

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Vineeth P Joseph · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-11T21:30:00

Its not very difficult to add multiple Icons in system tray using c#.
We can also handle the events . First of all you create two(or more) NotifyIcon in your application.

private System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon NotifyIcon1;
private System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon NotifyIcon2;

After that you have to initialize the icons as follows

MIDL

// Initializing
NotifyIcon1 = new System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon();
NotifyIcon2 = new System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon();
// Add the icon images
NotifyIcon1 .Icon = new System.Drawing.Icon("YourImage1.ico"); 
NotifyIcon2 .Icon = new System.Drawing.Icon("YourImage2.ico"); 
// Add text
NotifyIcon1 .Text = "text1";
NotifyIcon2 .Text = "text2";
// subscribe events here
NotifyIcon1 .MouseDown +=new System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventHandler(NotifyIcon1 _MouseDown);

You can also set the context menus in the NotifyIcon.
Set the visibility according to your requirement.
If you are using wpf , you should add the reference System.Windows.Forms to your project.

Thanks,
Vineeth