Recently, I’ve been distracted from my pet projects due to various life events and also Diablo 3 – Season 2. While I still haven’t been able to get new Random Coding or Top Coding content out, I did find a convenient survey plug-in for Word Press to get some feedback on Persistent Windows.
Based on some user feedback, Persistent Windows now runs in the SysTray and I removed the platform setting so it should work for people who are on 32 bit versions of Windows. I don’t personally have any 32 bit machines anymore, so I’m going to just wait for feedback to find out if it works or not. If I get feedback indicating that it still doesn’t work, then I may fire up a VM to test, validate and resolve.
As an interesting technical detail of this change. There is no native “NotifyIcon” implementation for WPF(At least none that I could find). I did find some other custom solutions on the internets for those who want a WPF context menu and all that jazz, but there really isn’t value in it for the scope of this tool. Thus, I converted the WPF shell project to a class library project, created a brand new WinForm shell project(which frames the SysTray icon) then referenced the WPF shell dll to re-use the existing diagnostic screen that I created, but also get the SysTray feature in.
Go check it out if you haven’t already – Persistent Windows
The code is open source and available to view for those who are curious and I know it’s a really old problem that seems to have been answered in a number of different ways in different places, but here is yet another example of how you can do so.
Thanks again for all the kind words and the awesome feedback!
Keep on coding on!
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