call notify balloon message in windows 7 from cmd?

Question

I need to create a notification balloon message in Windows 7 from the Command prompt with custom text. I have searched Google and found shell32.

Answer 1

This can be done in Powershell:

throw an icon (.ico file) in a c:\temp directory or point that somewhere else.

[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")

$objBalloon = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon
$objBalloon.Icon = "C:\temp\Folder.ico"

# You can use the value Info, Warning, Error
$objBalloon.BalloonTipIcon = "Info"

# Put what you want to say here for the Start of the process
$objBalloon.BalloonTipTitle = "Begin Title"
$objBalloon.BalloonTipText = "Begin Message"
$objBalloon.Visible = $True
$objBalloon.ShowBalloonTip(10000)                       

Do some work

Put what you want to say here for the completion of the process

$objBalloon.BalloonTipTitle = "End Title"
$objBalloon.BalloonTipText = "End Message"
$objBalloon.Visible = $True
$objBalloon.ShowBalloonTip(10000)