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Dec
19
2009

Minimize To Tray with WPF


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Posted in Programming and WPF

I’ve been working on porting LockCrypt to WPF from Java and was pretty shocked to find there was no no built-in support. It’s entirely possible, but you have to use WinForms. I based this on Delay‘s sample, feel free to use it however you wish.

namespace Lime49.WPF {
    /// <summary>
    /// Tray minimization utility, based on Delay's code - http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/.
    /// </summary>
    public static class TrayMinimizer {
        /// <summary>
        /// Enables "minimize to tray" behavior for the specified Window.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="window">Window to enable the behavior for.</param>
        public static void EnableMinimizeToTray(Window window) {
            if(MinimizeInstances.ContainsKey(window)) {
                Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Minimization already enabled for '{0}'", window.Title));
            } else {
                var instance = new MinimizeToTrayInstance(window);
                instance.Enable();
                MinimizeInstances.Add(window, instance);
            }
        }

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