I have started prgramming a windows service. I have added a notify icon from the toolbox. It has the small notify icon that appears in the systray as a member of those icons.

It works so far.

So far I have a blank form. I have used the DoubleClick for the notifyIcon to bring up the form (I will use the form for something later).

Now I have a list of things I want to accomplish to make this work like a true windows service.

First of all, if possible, I owuld like to remove the maximize and cancel button on the form. Most windos service apps that I have seen offer the ability to close the app by right-mouse-button clicking on the notify icon which brings up a menu of options.

I see in the properties of the form under Misc there is an CancelButton. But I do not see how do deactivate it. In the Properties of the forum I see under Window Style there is a ControlBox option that, if I turn to false, all three buttons, (minimize, maximize and cancel) go away.

These are not what i am looking for. I would not like the option for them to resize, maximize or close the form here. I suspect people will close the box intending to make the box go away while still wanting the app to run.

Under the "Focus" caption in Properties, there id "Deactivate". I have created my own event/method/function for this and in debug I noticed that when you click on the x-box in the upper right corner, this function is called. The problem is that after the function is over, the app closes anyway. How do I over-ride this function?

Secondly, how do you catch the right button click event on the notify icon in the systray?

I can see how to create events for "Click" and "MouseClick" etc. but how so I determine which button was click?

Using the right buton click is how such programs know when to pull up a menu. So I would like to know how to do this as well.