How to display a Notification Bubble in Windows Mobile using .NETCF

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.