put the application on trace - windows

İ have a windows application. I made it in v.s 2008 with c#. I want to put it on trace when i m installing it. like windows messenger, yahoo messenger etc...

I can only guess that by 'trace' you mean the Taskbar Notification Area. To add an icon in the notification area you use a NotificationIcon component. To react to user interacting with your icon you add event handlers or set the ContextMenu to your notification icon. The MSDN help for the NotificationIcon has a sample on how to achieve most common tasks like hiding the form on close and activate it back on notification icon click.

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How to handle outlook new message windows notification from Outlook Add-in

I have an Outloook Add-in that implements a kind of client-server communication with a background process. I have a custom window which is filled in with some information and then it is passed in to a background process (using System.Net.HttpClient.PostAsync) which processes it.
After background process finishes processing that information, it informs to Outlook Add-in about that, then Outlook Add-in handle this, creates a new Outlook email that appears as a new message in the Outlook inbox and finally shows a windows notification in the system tray informing the user about that.
Now I would like to handle from Outlook Add-in the event that is fired when user clicks on the Windows notification popup in the system tray so that Outlook Add-in can open a new window to display all the information processed by the background process.
So is it possible to do it? If so, could you please provide me some code snippets or examples, or even some kind of guide to start in? I have google and I haven't found anything about that.
Yes, it is possible. But VSTO (nor Outlook) doesn't provide anything for that. That is a pure .net topic. Consider your VSTO add-in as a regular Windows application based on .net platform.
I suppose the NotifyIcon component is used for displaying a notification in the tray. In that case you can use the NotifyIcon.BalloonTipClicked event which is fired when the balloon tip is clicked.
The following code example demonstrates the use of this member. In the example, an event handler reports on the occurrence of the BalloonTipClicked event. This report helps you to learn when the event occurs and can assist you in debugging. To report on multiple events or on events that occur frequently, consider replacing MessageBox.Show with Console.WriteLine or appending the message to a multiline TextBox.
To run the example code, paste it into a project that contains an instance of type NotifyIcon named NotifyIcon1. Then ensure that the event handler is associated with the BalloonTipClicked event.
MessageBox.Show("You are in the NotifyIcon.BalloonTipClicked event.");
So you are trying to create a fake email in the Inbox folder that looks like it was received? You cannot force Outlook to display new message notification - that can only be done from a transport provider by calling IMAPISupport::Notify and passing fnewNewMail flag.
You can of course create a fake message in the Inbox folder that looks like it was received (a bit convoluted in OOM but very easy using Redemption (I am its author) or Extended MAPI).
The best you can do is create your own tray notification that will open the message and display it (MailItem.Display) when the user clicks on it.

Windows taskbar icon event type - WxPython Phoenix

I am trying to find the event type associated with windows taskbar icon of my application. In Windows 8.1 user can close, minimize and restore the application from this icon.
Google is only showing the results for taskbar tray icons, which is a whole different thing. So far I've tried these:
wx.EVT_CLOSE # This event is not generated for taskbar closing
wx.EVT_RESTORE # This event is not generated either
Yet, it does close the application and it also manages to restore an iconized application. I made two separate handlers to check this. They are working when I use the titlebar buttons (close and min/maximize buttons), but not when done from the taskbar.

How to show the notify icon in taskbar for windows 7?

I implement a notify icon for my application by call Shell_NotifyIcon.
In the default, the notify icon display in the notify icon area instead of task bar in windows 7.
If the user want to show the notify icon in the task bar, he/she need to open the Notification Area Icons control panel item, find the application and set "Show icon and notifications" for the application.
I think it will be difficult to the user with poor windows knowledge. I want to implement this function that show the notify icon in the task bar in my VC++ code or installer. Is it possible? If yes, what should I do?
Appreciate.
No, this is not possible.
Windows 7 introduces a feature where notification icons can be hidden. It is an attempt to reduce the noise created by decades of developers dumping notification icons in the taskbar for no good reason.
In order for that feature to work effectively, there can't be a loophole for applications to get around it, because everyone thinks their application is the most important and the most deserving of prime real estate. Eventually, nothing is sacred anymore.
Raymond Chen has blogged about this very request, and provides some additional background info.
You just create the notification icon and provide the user with instructions in the documentation on how to show it permanently, if they so desire.
Why not just pin your application to the task bar? They can just click it and it will launch the application?

How to make a fixed Toast notification

I'm new to Windows Phone development and I've found something about background agents in WP 7.5:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpapps/CSWP7ScheduledTaskAgent-6450bcf1
I wasn't able to find a way of making the toast notification fixed, I mean, when it appears on the screen it should disappear.
Is there any way of doing this? any advices, documentation should be great.
Thanks.
Toast Notification by the OS
When a toast notification is created, the OS handles the amount of time it is displayed for...
A toast notification displays for about 10 seconds unless the user
dismisses it with a flick to the right. If the user taps the toast, by
default, your app's start screen launches. Or, you can choose to
specify which screen of your app will launch.
Taken from the official documentation.
The API for toast notifications does not allow you to specify a time. Only a title, content and deep link into your app. This is the only type of toast/notification that can be used by a Background Agent. But it will appear:
on the Start screen
when your app is being used
when any other app is being used.
Custom toast-like notification (eg. Coding4Fun Toolkit's Toast Prompt)
A custom toast notification, although more flexible, must obey all the system rules unlike the system's Toast Notification which has special permissions.
This means the Coding4Fun Toolkit's Toast Prompt cannot:
Display notifications when your app is not running (apps cannot run in the background, they are essentially paused)
Display notifications when the user is on the Start screen or not using your app
Having a permanently (or long) displaying toast notification would be annoying to the user (hence the 10 second limit by the OS version) so do think carefully about why you need it - is the System Tray or MessageBox a better idea?
If you're new to Windows Phone, I would recommend using a handset for a while to get the feel for how the system works and how other apps use all kinds of notifications.

Stop default launch of IE from an NFC "tap and send"

We have a very simple demo app with the Windows Phone map app sending a link via 'tap and send' to an NFC tablet. I can get and read the URL coming over, but Windows 8 pops over a purple bar in the top right asking if I want to receive content from another device, which then opens IE to the URL.
Is there an easy way to stop the default Windows behavior (not have the purple bar slide in)?
Thanks!
There is no way of disabling the toast pop-up and still have the OS launch the browser by default.
When not inside of a "metro style" app toast will always should for incoming proximity payloads such as an NFC tap, however if you are inside of your application you can subscribe to the proximity events and respond with your own user experiences, which means you don't have to show the toast. However when you are in the OS/Start Menu experience Windows always mandates the toast I'm afraid.
In addition; following on from the title of your question NFC tags respond based on the default program for the MIME type/extension on the tag (if using a URL). So if you want a custom experience instead of IE launching you can register your app again an extension or protocol such as map://mydataUrl and Windows will automatically launch your app when you acknowledge the toast popup.

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