Hey everyone, I'm using the NotifyIcon() from System.Windows.Forms.dll (.NET 2.0) to create a menu for controlling an application. I began work using the example shown here http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/3915, and the code works when running in the LabVIEW IDE. However, when I build the code into an executable, the icon is not displayed when running. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? My code is still very messy (still in the try-everything-and-see-what-works phase), so I'll clean it up before returning and posting it. For reference, I'm trying to make a system-tray-only monitor for a NI DAQ 6009. Program starts off in the system tray and starts recording data. User can right click to show the main window where he can change the update interval or view plots.

Ok, I got it working! Turns out that I had a few mistakes: 1. When I copied over the System.Windows.Forms.dll, I also needed to copy System.Drawing.dll because I used that when creating the icon. 2. I had the .dll files put into the build directory, but I'd forgotten to also include the icons used by the program. Turns out the NotifyIcon() was being called, but an icon image was never created! Hence why I couldn't see it...

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I did a few more checks, and it turns out that I don't need to have those dlls in the executable directory. But the links you provided definitely led me in the right direction, and helped me learn a lot more to boot!

So kudos to you good sir!

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Goes to show that knowing where to look is nearly as good as experience.

Glad I helped!

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