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In my Application I had a Main Menu Which is the MDIParent It has a menustrip in top to navigate to different forms and a panel in the bottom which contains a labelcontrol used to dispaly error messages and status.
My requirement is when there is any pending jobs left for the user ( it will be optained by a select query) I want to show a pop up like "You have pending jobs ", I wish to use a notify icon for that .

But my problem is the notify icon is always apperaing in the start bar of my Pc not on my application mdiparent

Can anyone suggest any remedy for that or any better ideas
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Here is the idea: who needs MDI, ever? Why torturing yourself and scaring off your users?
Do yourself a great favor: do not use MDI at all. You can do much easier to implement design without it, with much better quality. MDI is highly discouraged even by Microsoft, in fact, Microsoft dropped it out of WPF and will hardly support it. More importantly, you will scare off all your users if you use MDI. Just don't. Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface#Disadvantages[^],
How to Create MDI Parent Window in WPF?[^].

I can explain what to do instead. Please see my past answers:
How to Create MDI Parent Window in WPF? [Solution 2],
Question on using MDI windows in WPF[^],
MDIContainer giving error[^],
How to set child forms maximized, last childform minimized[^].

—SA
 
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SREENATH GANGA 30-Apr-13 1:32am    
but i had already developed more than 80 forms in winform using mdiparent child format
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Apr-13 10:55am    
Sorry for you. And who do you think is responsible for that. And you have mercy for your users.
—SA

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