Daemonizing a console app

Daemonizing a console app

• GSchaefer

  You can still write a windows service ...

  http://www.webessence.nl/artikelen/.NET/Create-a-windows-service/

  There is nothing "magic" that visual studio does for you, you can in fact do it all without visual studio.

  Cheers,

  Greg

  
  

• Ben Zaaiman

  I guess we could just make a winforms app and hide the window and display a tray icon.
  
  I know in linux you could append an ampersand to put the process in the background, i.e.
  
  app.exe &
  
  

• skimum

  Look at the Process class in .net. There is options for Startup like WindowStyle and what not. You can hide it etc.
  

• RFOG

  the same problem for me,
  i need to keep running an application in background and make a tray icon animated when
  some events occur on the "deamon"...
  
  
  

• VYV

  ok, i found it:
  
  if you want to start the application minimized you have only to set in the Form properties tab
  the WindowState = Minimized
  
  and then if you want to put it in the tray bar instead of the task bar all you have to do is
  only to put a NotifyIcon component to your app and use this code to switch:
  
  if (WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized)
  {
  ShowInTaskbar = false;
  notifyIcon1.Visible = true;
  }
  else
  {
  ShowInTaskbar = true;
  notifyIcon1.Visible = false;
  }
  
  hope this will be useful for you too.
  
  
  

• B Lambert

  That was exactly what I was looking for.

  Thanks Greg!

  
  
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