ASTC component provides an easy way to enable your VB, VC++, C#, VB.NET, or other COM environment applications to put an icon in Système tray area It supports many advanced features such as show balloons and animated icons.

ASTC Object Model Features:

Show-Hide the icon in systray area.
Show the icon in animation state.
Assign a tooltip for the icon.
Check the current state of the icon [visible or invisible].
Show a balloon tool tip even displaying on win9x .
Change the icon and tooltip in run time.
Ability to assign a popup menu for a particular event happen to the icon even displaying on win9x.
Track Popup menu so whenever your program lost focus the icon popup menu will be closed.
Show more than one icon in the systray.
The installer package contain sample code of using the control in the following languages Vb6.0, VC++6.0, VB.Net, VC#.NET, VC++.NET and VJ#.NET