I am new to .NET, I have made a small app. I want that this app should start when we start Windows, also how to make this app be present like a system tray icon if we minimize it. The app is a Windows form application.
As far as having it start automatically you can make it a windows service or you can simply place it in the windows startup folder and it will automatically launch it. For the System tray you should look into the NotifyIcon control.
For starting: couple of options..
1: Use scheduled tasks - accessed through control panel / adminstrative tasks
2: Make a shortcut to your exe in the startup folder in your start menu
For system tray: refer to this question: What's the proper way to minimize to tray a C# WinForms app?
in addition to what #Jesus said
you can also add a registry entry for start up. Windows service wouldn't do if your app is requiring the tray icon.
Best bet IMO is to make an installer project and configure the installer to have it start with windows when it's installed. Let the installer figure it out.
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I'm developing a MVC application using .NET 6.0. I am publishing the app with the following configuration:
The app, so far, is launched by double-clicking the .exe, it shows the classic "cmd-style" window.
Now the requirement is to start the portable app minimized into a system tray notification area in Windows (if this is not possible, I was looking for a method to deploy the app as a service which runs in background).
How can I achieve this? Thank you.
To obtain access to the system tray, you need a message pump and a target window. In other words, a regular command-line executable doesn't cut it. Basically you need to have an executable that creates a window (can be an invisible one) and then the main thread must pump Windows messages.
I'll say this much for now becuase the provided information is insufficient and explaining all possible scenarios would be too long a response.
I need to make an application which automatically moves files from source folder to destination folder on specified "time"(2 different times in a day). Once entered, this app should run daily. I have made a form application which moves file perfectly on button click. I need to implement this without any button click interaction.
Scheduling using Windows Task Scheduler is not an option for me.
One way I have achieved exactly that by creating a windows service project and put all the button click logic in a class library.
For scheduling the service i used Quartz.Net so that it can triggers the job/service at given interval.
You can find more about Quarts.Net here.
Please do note that you need administrative access to install and run your windows service.
I have a C#/winforms application that runs minimized to the system tray. If I double click the EXE for this app it runs as it is supposed to, I see the process in task manager and the icon appears in the system tray. I also have a windows service which acts as a watchdog for the other app. If the winforms app gets closed the service restarts is using process.start
If the app is started from the service using process.start, firing off the same EXE file the process runs but the tray icon doesnt appear.
Just to be clear the winforms app puts the tray icon in place not the windows service.
Any idea why the app would react differently to a process.start than to a double click?
Edit: I may have partially answered my own question. The service is running as local system. Not sure some run as local system would be able to add an icon to my users system tray in the same manner a double click would. Does this sound like I am on the right track?
Yes, you're on the right track. Services run in a different session (session 0). If they open a window (which is highly discouraged), they are now called "interactive services". In that case, Windows pops up a dialog (see MSDN blog for a screenshot).
Similar things probably happen to the tray icon. Since you don't have a window, you don't get the popup dialog for interactive services, but the tray icon still exists in session 0, so you cannot see it.
If you're on Windows 8, interactive services have been disabled (MSDN) completely.
I've created WinCE 6.0 image without taskbar. So all app's maximized to full screen.
I want create my own app like taskbar. I want add only few buttons to this taskbar. But I want That other app in their maximized mode don't hide this task bar. And I don't want make my all top most, because they hide some part of other app.
How can I make my app like task bar?
You could modify the existing taskbar in the current Explore shell (source at %WINCEROOT%\PUBLIC\SHELL\OAK\HPC\EXPLORER\TASKBAR\taskbar.cpp or is that's not flexible enough, you could create your own Shell and create your own "taskbar-like" behavior however you'd like.
In either case, remember to clone the code to your own BSP tree! Don't modify the public tree.
The approach I've taken and works is to write a custom kiosk shell based on the explorer.exe code built in visual studio. You could use platform builder as well, kind of the same tool now a days. Looking back I'd say it was a bit heavy handed and it took a little bit of refactoring to CTaskBar and explorer to subclass CTaskBar to our needs, but it produced a shell that we could lock and unlock with complete explorer capabilities. Perhaps a lighterweight approach would be to register your app's window as the taskbar (sorry the system call escapes me) and handle the taskbar specific messages in your winproc?
Is it possible to make a Visual C# program that runs without a console or windows form? If so, how?
Sure- set the build output type to Windows Application under Project Properties, and don't show a form in Main. You can do whatever you want in there- you just have to manage the lifetime of the app somehow (eg, how do you plan to shut it down?)
You can also create a Windows Service app; start and stop the app via the Services Management console.