Adding item to top menu bar system icons?

[Brazilian Joe]

Hi all,
I have just started dabbling in HelloWorld!ing for WM :), and i would like to learn on how do I create an icon/graph/text/whatever area, on the system top bar (what's teh proper name?).
So far MSDN reference has baffled me, not to mention that I am not a very skilled C++ programmer... (my background is on web apps)
My intention is to play with apps which enhance this area like the infinite taskmanagers/battery monitors/etc which are already available on gobs :) as a learning exercise.

Also, if there are good tutorial site references, I'd be glad to know...

BTW, I am using eVC4 to code, (with sp4 for WM5 compatibility) as it's free.

[levenum]

Hello Joe.

Welcome to the wonderful world of windows CE programming :)
Seriously though, to mess around with the task bar (the one with the start menu on it) you need to create your own window, which will be its child window.
Here is an article on it:
http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/taskbar_icon.html
also, look here:
http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/remove_x_button.html

[lolslothy]

To put an icon in the notification area, look in up the SHAddNotification API.