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Create a MAUI application that lives in the system tray (Windows)

Sanket Vinod Solanki 30 Reputation points
2023-03-08T05:03:30.4633333+00:00

Hi,

We want to create an application that essentially lives in the system tray.

When a user wants to do something, they right-click on the icon, choose what they want to do from the context menu of system tray, and that starts the GUI with the choice they made.

If the user closes the GUI, the system tray application stays running.

We cannot easily figure out how to do that in MAUI.

Please suggest on this.

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  1. Bruce (SqlWork.com) 61,731 Reputation points
    2023-11-18T21:13:51.63+00:00

    You create separate windows tray application. This application would start the GUI app when required.

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  1. Alessandro Caliaro 4,181 Reputation points
    2023-03-08T05:07:27.68+00:00

    It seems that WinUI App could not work in background,

    Here a post

    https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/6723

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