Creating applications that display icons in the Windows system tray area has always been a challengefor Visual Basic developers. The API's to create tray icons and get events back from the system tray are not easy to handle in VB.VBSysTray provides a simple solution. Simply adding the control to a VB form and setting one property automatically places that form's icon in the system tray. The icon can be shown or removed as needed at run-time, and a tool-tip can be set to display when the mouse is over the icon. To allow an application to respond while hidden, VBSysTray raises Click, DoubleClick, MouseDown, and MouseUp events in response 8to users clicking the icon.

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