DotTray

Show lightweight Windows Notification Icons simple and easy without any dependencies.

Current features - for feature requests just open an issue here

• Fully non-blocking API with async support
• Easily create multiple icons at once and handle them individually without any complicated code required
• Changing icon at runtime
• Changing tooltip at runtime
• Changing menu items at runtime
• CancellationToken support to easily tie cancellation to other operations
• Show detailed balloon notifications with customization options
• NativeAOT compatible

Quickstart

var menuItems = new MenuItemCollection(
[
    new MenuItem
    {
        Text = "Item Number 1",
        Click = (sender, args) => Console.WriteLine("Item Number 1 Clicked")
    },
    new MenuItem
    {
        Text = "Item Number 2",
        IsDisabled = true
    },
    new MenuItem
    {
        Text = "Item Number 3",
        IsChecked = true,
        Click = (sender, args) => Console.WriteLine($"Item Number 3 was {(sender.IsChecked ?? false ? "checked" : "unchecked")}")
    },
    new MenuItem
    {
        Text = "Item Number 4",
        SubMenu = new MenuItemCollection(
        [
            new MenuItem
            {
                Text = "SubItem Number 1"
            },
            new MenuItem
            {
                Text = "SubItem Number 2",
                Click = (sender, args) => Console.WriteLine("SubItem Number 2 Clicked")
            }
        ])
    }
]);

using (var notifyIcon = NotifyIcon.Run(@"path\to\my\icon.ico", menuItems, CancellationToken.None))
{
    Console.ReadKey();
}

This example will look something like this. The exact look depends on your Windows Version

Show a Balloon Message

notifyIcon.ShowBalloon(new BalloonNotification
{
    Icon = BalloonNotificationIcon.Error,
    Title = "An error occurred",
    Message = "This is a fictional error message. You can show some useful information here :)",
    NoSound = false
});

This balloon message will look something like this. The exact look depends on your Windows Version