Blog | BenHollis.net » PopupNotify http://benhollis.net/blog News about BenHollis.net and articles about Ben's interests Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:39:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 New Version of the PopupNotify Windows Forms Control http://benhollis.net/blog/2007/09/09/new-version-of-the-popupnotify-windows-forms-control/ http://benhollis.net/blog/2007/09/09/new-version-of-the-popupnotify-windows-forms-control/#comments Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:20:49 +0000 Ben Hollis http://brh.numbera.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/09/new-version-of-the-popupnotify-windows-forms-control/ 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.

The new, Vista-style popup

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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