Notification.InitialDuration Property

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10/15/2009

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Gets or sets the number of seconds the message balloon remains visible after initially shown.

Namespace: Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms
Assembly: Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms (in Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Property InitialDuration As Integer
    Get
    Set
'Usage
Dim instance As Notification
Dim value As Integer

value = instance.InitialDuration

instance.InitialDuration = value

public int InitialDuration { get; set; }

public:
property int InitialDuration {
    int get ();
    void set (int value);
}

member InitialDuration : int with get, set

Property Value

Type: System.Int32
The amount of time the balloon is visible, in seconds. The default is 10.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentException	Occurs if this property is set to a negative value.

Remarks

If you set this property to zero, the message balloon does not initially display but the notification icon appears in the title bar.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates creating and displaying a notification with a twenty second duration. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the Notification class.

Notification1.InitialDuration = 20

notification1.InitialDuration = 20;

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

Platforms

Windows Mobile for Pocket PC

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Version Information

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 2.0