How do I manually create an icon in the system tray?

The conventional approach is easy enough; drop a NotifyIcon onto a Form.
When the form is loaded - bingo - the icon appears in the System Tray.

I can't use this approach though. I'm writing a service. But I'd like my
service to install an icon on the System Tray so that the user can start /
stop / and otherwise control the service interactively, and without having
to go to the Services applet. How do I do this?

Thanks for your advice.

- Joseph Geretz -


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