If you pass server to it, any other class that uses this notify icon will require to instantiate it with server, when possibly they might not have anything to do with server.

Ok, so why not create overload methods, one for srvr.Start() and one for srvr.Stop() ?


I'm sorry but i still can't see , looking at the code so far, why it will not work . so let's say you have this in main()

Server srvr= new Server();
Notify_Icon ico=new Notify_Icon();
srvr.Start(ico);
// do something..
srvr.Stop(ico);

and in other functions you will have :

srvr.Start();
// do something..
srvr.Stop();

now... if this will not work .... then i'm missing the whole point so sorry .