Re-useable harness for tray-based applications

Today I started writing a new little hobby application / productivity tool which I'm planning to implement as tray application.  The first thing that I did was to crack open the code from Duncan's 3rd Coding For Fun article titled: "Checking My Email"

The code contains a plethora of useful code for implementing the skeleton of a tray-based app. such as this.  I used the code from that article and within 30 minutes had a tray-based app with:

• Ability to load/persist my user settings between sessions
• Display my application in the tray with its own icon
• A user interface wired-up to allow me to edit my user settings

All that I need to do now is to code up a module with my application logic in it and call it from within the applciation loop of this great little harness.

Neat eh!  :-)