How to create context menu for notify icon using windows service application in c#.net

[dharanighanta]

Hi Friends, I have developed a Windows service. Now i need icon for this service in systray and context menu for this icon. I have added context menu for notify icon but context menu not displaying in systray. Please let me know how to do this? With regards, Dharani.

[Justin Perez]

dharanighanta wrote:

Hi Friends, I have developed a Windows service. Now i need icon for this service in systray and context menu for this icon. I have added context menu for notify icon but context menu not displaying in systray. Please let me know how to do this?

AFAIK, it won't display. A service is supposed to run without any user interaction. I.E. no System.Windows.Forms. I think you can have the tray icon, but no context menu. Maybe someone will verify this. What I think you will have to do is have your service start a process that is nothing but a tray icon, with the context menu(if that's what you want), and then have that application communicate with the service.

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