Look at the bottom-right corner of your screen. That tiny strip of icons – the – is the mission control for your background apps.
ContextMenuStrip menu = new ContextMenuStrip(); menu.Items.Add("Open", null, OnOpen); menu.Items.Add("Exit", null, OnExit); trayIcon.ContextMenuStrip = menu; systemtray
The concept of the system tray was popularized by Windows 95 and has since become a staple of GUI (Graphical User Interface) design across almost all platforms. macOS has its (top right), and Linux distributions use various Status Notifiers . Even mobile devices have adopted a version of this via the status bar at the top of the screen. Look at the bottom-right corner of your screen
: Short-lived messages that pop up to alert the user of background events. Implementation by Language trayIcon.ContextMenuStrip = menu