A couple years back I posted the source of XBList‘s tray notification control on my site as the PopupNotify control. I licensed it under the LGPL so people could use it for their own applications. While I requested that whoever used it should let me know, I’ve never received any email about it until this week, when somebody wrote to tell me that they had been using it but it didn’t work on Vista, and they wanted some help getting it to work. Despite the fact that I would rather they had told me about this beforehand, I’ve taken this as an opportunity to update the component. I just pulled out the current version of the control that I’m using for XBList, which has a much prettier Vista-style look, less P/Invoke calls, and other .NET 2.0 improvements. I’ve left the 1.1 version of the control around for anyone who wants to use it but hasn’t updated to .NET 2.0 yet.
Hopefully this component will continue to be useful to other developers, and they’ll let me know if they’re using it in their projects, since it’s just so much more fun to release stuff for free when you get to see it in action.
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Hi,
I am a .net developer.i came to know about your pop up notify control.I want to know some details.As i am developing a webased applicaion,i want to know whether it can be used in asp.net to give some alert to client machine…if yes..please give some tips to implement it and please send the code in my mailid just_ins77@yahoo.ca
thanks in advance,
regards,
justin
No, it’s a Windows Forms component. You can’t use it from ASP.NET.
Hi Ben,
First: thank you for your excellent control!. Now my problem: I have a memory issue when run the app. If i open a task manager and see the size-memory of the popup (for example 3MB) and open another popup (with a simple button, only for test purpose) this increase the size, but if i close the popup (with the “close” icon) this never decrease the size of the app.
I try to manage this setting dispose in many cases but nothing work. I need help with this.
Thank you¡¡¡
Data: I use 3.5 studio 2008.
Ulises,
It’s totally possible that the PopupNotify control has a memory leak, but more likely, you’re just seeing the effects of .NET’s memory management. When you close the popup, it’s destroyed, but not necessarily garbage collected yet.
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