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

Expanding on bk1e's correct answer.

Under the hood, a system tray icon in WinForms is implemented as a Win32 Notify Icon. Therefore the winforms version has all of the limitations as the native one. The tooltip size limitation is just one example.