Look at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon; you can drag this into the
component area of a form, set an icon and text, a menu, click-events, etc.

Obviously if this is actually placed on a (dummy) form, you might want to
make the form invisible and set ShowInTaskbar to false

Marc

Hi,

NotifyIcon is your answer, also you may want to remove your app from
ALT+TAB and the task bar, here is the code for all this:

 [DllImport("user32.dll")]
 public static extern int SetWindowLong( IntPtr window, int index, int
value);
 [DllImport("user32.dll")]
 public static extern int GetWindowLong( IntPtr window, int index);

 const int GWL_EXSTYLE = -20;
 const int WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW = 0x00000080;
 const int WS_EX_APPWINDOW = 0x00040000;

private System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon notifyIcon1;

// I use two icons depending of the status of the app
normalIcon = new Icon(this.GetType(),"Normal.ico");
alertIcon = new Icon(this.GetType(),"Alert.ico");
notifyIcon1.Icon = normalIcon;

this.WindowState = System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Minimized;
this.Visible = false;
this.ShowInTaskbar = false;
iconTimer.Start();

//Make it gone frmo the ALT+TAB
int windowStyle = GetWindowLong(Handle, GWL_EXSTYLE);
SetWindowLong(Handle, GWL_EXSTYLE, windowStyle | WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW);

cheers,