[Reposted from Christian Helle's Blog]
Yesterday, I found myself using an old piece of code that I wrote ages ago. It's something I've used every now and then for past few years. Since I myself find it useful, I might as well share it. All the code does is display a Notification Bubble in Windows Mobile. To do this you use the
Notification class in the Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms namespace. Even though the Notification class is very straight forward and easy to use, I created a helper class so that I only need to write one line of code for displaying a notification bubble: NotificationBubble.Show(2, "Caption", "Text");
/// <summary>
/// Used for displaying a notification bubble
/// </summary>
public static class NotificationBubble
{
/// <summary>
/// Displays a notification bubble
/// </summary>
/// <param name="duration">Duration in which the notification bubble is shown (in seconds)</param>
/// <param name="caption">Caption</param>
/// <param name="text">Body</param>
public static void Show(int duration, string caption, string text)
{
var bubble = new Notification
{
InitialDuration = duration,
Caption = caption,
Text = text
};
bubble.BalloonChanged += OnBalloonChanged;
bubble.Visible = true;
}
private static void OnBalloonChanged(object sender, BalloonChangedEventArgs e)
{
if (!e.Visible)
((Notification)sender).Dispose();
}
}
Hope you found this helpful.