Calling NotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip() from another class

Question

I'm developing a Windows Form application in C#. I have a main form called MainWindow and a NotifyIcon object called notifyIcon that belongs to the MainWindow class.

What is the best way for me to use notifyIcon from other classes?

I know that, without an instance, I can only access public static members of the class, but if I set the notifyIcon as public static, it stops working on MainWindow.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

If it's the same application you can use

Application.OpenForms

to retrieve opened forms.

This property returns a FormCollection, you can get the form instance from there. More info here.

If it's not the same assembly see this.

Answer 2

You can expose a public method on the form. This method can internally call the methods on notifyicon