NotifyIcon Sample

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  • Press F5.

Demonstrates

This application uses the NotifyIcon control and its associated ContextMenu to access and display system data:

  • The length of time, in minutes, the user's computer has gone since its last reboot

  • The current time zone of the user

  • The current date

  • The version of the .NET Framework that is installed on the user's computer

  • The current version of the operating system that the user is running the application on