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System Tray Icons - Minimize Your Application to the SysTray
By Daniel Zilcsak.
This article illustrates the use of Shell_NotifyIcon to create and manage System Tray icons. The article explains the basics of this operation and assists you in creating your own 'Minimize To Tray' applications. The source code provided with this article is designed to work with dialog-based applications, but it can easily be modified to work with a CFrameWnd or CWnd based application.
Code:
link: http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:m6gkjJygLB4J:https://secure.codeproject.com/shell/trayicons.asp+windows+code+minimize+to+tray+function&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=17&lr=lang_en
Demo project attached.
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