Show a Balloon notification

c# .net winforms notifyicon notification-area
Ben picture Ben · Nov 14, 2012 · Viewed 91.5k times · Source

I'm trying to use the below code to show a Balloon notification. I've verified that it's being executed by using breakpoints. It's also showing no errors.

What should I do to debug this since it's not throwing errors and not showing the balloon?

private void showBalloon(string title, string body)
{
    NotifyIcon notifyIcon = new NotifyIcon();
    notifyIcon.Visible = true;

    if (title != null)
    {
        notifyIcon.BalloonTipTitle = title;
    }

    if (body != null)
    {
        notifyIcon.BalloonTipText = body;
    }

    notifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip(30000);
}

Answer

user203570 picture user203570 · Nov 14, 2012

You have not actually specified an icon to display in the task bar. Running your code in LINQPad, by simply adding notifyIcon.Icon = SystemIcons.Application before the call to ShowBalloonTip I was able to get the tip to be displayed. Also note that you should call Dispose when you are done with your NotifyIcon instance.

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