heaps of thanks for that link. I threaded the "Bot" segment of the app separate from the Forms thread.. Probably not the cleanest.. but it works. My question is.. when the user exits the program, how can I ensure that all connections and what-not are closed and disposed of properly, and not have anything lingering around, until the system realizes that it's not used?

Actually.. I would love to make it a Windows Form App.. I could add a heck of a lot more features that I had to scrap because console doesn't support it.. I just don't know how to do it.. I tried using Windows Form App.. and having a RichTextBox display all relevant information to the user, but the program would freeze on me. I know extreamly little about network programming. From what I can gather, the program "freezes" because it's in an infinity loop waiting for the next line of text to be recieved from the IRC room. I would love to learn how to convert my bot from console to Form App..

The program I am writing is an EggDrop for a chatroom. This Bot logs all activity in each room it's in. When started all I want to show is the notify icon. When the user wants to see the console, they would double click on the notify icon to show the console, and either minimize or close the console to close the console, but the bot would keep running - you can only close it by giving the command in a room, or right-clicking the notify icon and choosing "Close Bot." I just don't know how to accomplish this.

When the application is minimized, how can I remove it from the taskbar.. so the icon in the NotifyIcon is the only thing showing that the program is running... and then how do I open the console back up? Also.. What would be the correct syntax to close the Icon? Here's the start of my "Main" section:

public static void Main (string[] args)
{
NotifyIcon ni = new NotifyIcon();
ni.Icon = new System.Drawing.Icon("C:/Icon.ico");
ni.Visible = true;
// Irc server to connect
if ( Disconnecting )
{
ni.Dispose();
ni.Visible = false;
writer.Close();
stream.Close();
irc.Close();
stream.Close();
}

Thanks for the help.. it's greatly valued!

I'm creating a console based app and want to set it so when minimized, it'll go to the notify icon area of the taskbar so that it can run in the background and not take up valuable space on the taskbar. I have been trying for about a week to figure this out.. to no avail. I am still learning C#.. but love what I have accomplished. Anyone here willing to show me how to do this? Also, if possible, set the icon and name of the Console that comes up insead of having the standard "Windows/.../.../cmd.exe" and icon -- I want to be able to set the name and icon of the Console (again, if possible). I have the icon to use already - for the minimized notifyicon image and for the console icon - but I do not know how to set it. I have set the "Windows Icon" for the program already, but once the program is ran.. you don't see the icon in the app.:~