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Putting a Program Icon in the System Tray with C++

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This Tutorial is all about getting program icons onto the System Tray.

The System Tray is located in the Windows Taskbar, usually at the bottom right corner next to the clock. It contains miniature icons for easy access to system functions such as antivirus settings, printer, modem, sound volume, battery status, and more.

Now you too can have your programs icon sitting in the System Tray !!

I have tested this both Code::Blocks/MinGW and Visual Studio 2010
both work fine.

As this is not a Unicode build if you are building it in Visual Studio
you will have to do the following

Goto Project Properties -> Configuration Properties -> General
Under 'Project Defaults' it says Character set in the drop down menu box
select 'Use Multi-Byte Character Set'.  more...

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