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08-13-2008
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| | System Tray Icon in Vista for a Service So if I write a dot net application that I deploy as a service, am I "allowed" to have a systemtray icon? It works in XP, as long as the service is installed with the interact with desktop setting is maintained. But I have reason to believe that maybe the stricter world of Vista will not allow the system trayicon to be managed from a service, or maybe there's a trick to it. |
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08-13-2008
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| | Re: System Tray Icon in Vista for a Service I don't believe there's a trick. Vista's service isolation mean that they cannot interact with the desktop. In the .NET world I believe remoting between a client and the service is a popular way to have UI control of the service. -- Phil Wilson Definitive Guide to Windows Installer http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590592972 "sengsational" <DRS.Usenet@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:df3a2a9a-792c-436f-9774-a31e8d7b79fd@xxxxxx Quote: > So if I write a dot net application that I deploy as a service, am I > "allowed" to have a systemtray icon? It works in XP, as long as the > service is installed with the interact with desktop setting is > maintained. But I have reason to believe that maybe the stricter > world of Vista will not allow the system trayicon to be managed from a > service, or maybe there's a trick to it. |
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