To display Text On Notify Icon Mouse Over

c# notifyicon
Tinoy Jameson picture Tinoy Jameson · Jun 27, 2012 · Viewed 8.9k times · Source

How to display text on mouseover of notifyicon in c#.Since the ShowBalloonTip shows with respect to the timeout, how can i display the text on mouseover of the Notify Icon?

Answer

Alex picture Alex · Jun 27, 2012

Text Property of NotifyIcon class is what you need

.Text is rendered as a tooltip when you hover over the icon.

public string Text { get; set; }

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