1000 Free "Farm-Fresh Web Icons" by FatCow Web Hosting. Regional Statistics. Gerd Arntz Web Archive Isotype. C# Tip: Placing Your C# Application in the System Tray. There are many cases when it's advantageous to place an application's icon in the System Tray.
For example, firewall/antivirus and instant messaging applications do this so as to run in the background and still be accessible to the user without crowding up the task bar. In this week's installment of my .NET Tips and Techniques series, I'll show you the steps involved in specifying that an application is to be minimized to the Tray, how to allow the user to restore the application by double-clicking the icon and how to create and respond to a System Tray icon's context menu.