put the application on trace

Question

Hi there. İ have a windows application. I made it in v.s 2008 with c#. I want to put it on trace when i m installing it. like windows messenger, yahoo messenger etc...

Answer 1

I can only guess that by 'trace' you mean the Taskbar Notification Area. To add an icon in the notification area you use a NotificationIcon component. To react to user interacting with your icon you add event handlers or set the ContextMenu to your notification icon. The MSDN help for the NotificationIcon has a sample on how to achieve most common tasks like hiding the form on close and activate it back on notification icon click.