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[Bogoh67]

Introduction:

So as most of you may know when you receive a notification in skype, the icon will show the amount of notifications you have.



Today i will teach you how to achieve such effect.

Tutorial:

1. First of make a picturebox in your application with your image (later you can get rid of it, but for now make it big so you can see your work)



2. Now add a button or find an event in which it will change the icon of the form



3. Now for the code!

3a. First we want to declare the image so write this

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Dim ti As Bitmap = PictureBox1.Image 'Or whatever image you want, could be Me.Icon.ToBitmap

3b. Then declare the variable we want to show on the image

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Dim int As Integer = 1 'Enter your value here

3c. We now get the graphics of the image

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Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(ti) 'Gets ti's graphics

3d. Add one more variable, the icon

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Dim ico As Icon 'Icon variable

3e. Ok this is where things get tricky so you will need to adjust this a lot because this is all your preference. This will be the circle which encloses 'int'. I went for a gold background which starts in the bottom left of my picture.

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g.FillEllipse(Brushes.Gold, New Rectangle(New Point(PictureBox1.Size.Width - 40, PictureBox1.Size.Height - 40), New Size(70, 70))) 'This is the circle

3f. Finally we get rid of the graphics

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g.Dispose()

3g. Now we declare what the icon will look like

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ico = Icon.FromHandle(ti.GetHicon)

3h. Set the form's icon as the one we just got

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 Me.Icon = ico 'Sets the new icon

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End Results:

Your code should now look something like this



Some things people might mention are you don't really need to declare the ico variable. You could just get rid of it and at the end right this

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Me.Icon = Icon.FromHandle(ti.GetHicon)

Here is what i got in the end



Thanks for reading and bye!

[MrAksel]

I'm sure that Skype uses another, much simpler method. #Agust1337 has already posted a tutorial for .NET Agust1337 - windows 7 taskbar things

[Dummy1912]

nice one #Bogoh67 looking cool :lol: thanks for sharing.

[Bogoh67]

I'm sure that Skype uses another, much simpler method. #Agust1337 has already posted a tutorial for .NET Agust1337 - windows 7 taskbar things

Good good point . I guess this is a way without windows API code pack