How can I show a systray tooltip longer than 63 chars?

Question

How can I show a systray tooltip longer than 63 chars? NotifyIcon.Text has a 63 chars limit, but I\'ve seen that VNC Server has a longer tooltip.

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Answer 1

From the MSDN documentation on the Win32 NOTIFYICONDATA structure:

szTip

A null-terminated string that specifies the text for a standard ToolTip. It can have a maximum of 64 characters, including the terminating null character.

For Windows 2000 (Shell32.dll version 5.0) and later, szTip can have a maximum of 128 characters, including the terminating null character.

It looks like the Windows Forms library supports the lowest common denominator here.