I'm no VB expert, but don't you have to do something like this first:

AppNotifyIcon = New NotifyIcon

~~Bonnie


>Hoping someone can help. In my form load, I'm trying to create an icon to show that the application is running. But I keep getting a system.nullreference error on the following code.
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>   Dim AppNotifyIcon As NotifyIcon
>   AppNotifyIcon.Icon = New Icon("Running.ico")  <-This line bombs
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>Thanks for any help
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>Kirk