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Creating balloon tooltip in C#

Can i know how can i make a popup bubble message in my application coded in C#.

Like example, when i start my application, it'll popup saying "Welcome to UbuntuSE App".

And yea, The popup is not the message box popup, it's the popup in the traymenu.

Something similar to this:

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PS, If i'm not wrong, this is called Balloon Tooltips. But how can i use this in my codes.

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PirateOwh Avatar asked Jun 08 '11 08:06

PirateOwh


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1 Answers

you must be looking for the Notify Icon Control

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another CodeProject Example

here is a full example in MSDN

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Rami Alshareef Avatar answered Sep 17 '22 14:09

Rami Alshareef