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");  

Implementation:

/// <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.