Simple VB.NET Notify Icon with Panel Application - The Application
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The application contains the following controls. Add controls in the order as they appear below:
| Control | Name of the Control | Value |
| Form | form1 | Text: System Tray icon and panel example |
| | Add a Group Box Control to hold the buttons | |
| GroupBox | GroupBox1 | Controls |
| | Add buttons and linklabel to the group box | |
| Button | Button1 | Text: Panel1 |
| Button | Button2 | Text: Panel2 |
| Link Label | LinkLabel1 | Tray |
| | Add two panel control to the form | |
| Panel | Panel1 | |
| Panel | Panel2 | |
| | Add a Label to Panel1 | |
| Label | Label1 | Text: This is Panel1 |
| | Add a Label to Panel2 | |
| Label | Label2 | Text: This is Panel2 |
| | Add a context Menu to the form | |
| Context Menu | Cmn | |
| | Menu Items are given below | |
| MenuItem | &Exit | MenuItem1 |
| MenutItem | Panel&1 | pan1 |
| MenutItem | Pane&2 | pan2 |
Select Panel1 and note its size and location parameters in the property window.
Apply the same location parameters of Panel1 to the Panel2 property sheet. By now, Panel2 is above Panel1.
Now concentrating on Notify Icon, drag the Notify Icon control displayed in Windows Forms genre, in the tool box, to the form. Notify Icon must be on the component tray. Select it and change its name to nfi. Now on the Notify Icon property sheet, choose the icon parameter and associate it with your favorite icon. This is the icon that will be displayed in the system tray.Next: Context Menu >>
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