I have a VB.NET form that takes up the whole screen. On Windows XP, the taskbar is not displayed when moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen. I have auto-hide set, and the taskbar is not locked. I tried the same thing on a Vista computer and it works fine. What am I missing on Windows XP? I need the auto-hide feature to work for my app like it does for other Windows apps.
View 1 RepliesIt does work on some machine's but wold not start on other computers. from the code line's I see the problem is related to devex components.
View 2 RepliesI would be able to hide a window from the taskbar using vb.
View 8 RepliesI have this code which makes a list of all programs currently open and running in the taskbar into a listbox but i cant for the life of me figure out how i can open one of those windows by clicking on the listbox and it opens the selected windowthis is the code I have Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form..[code]while searching online for a solution im guessing i have to use the hwnd showwindow command but i dont know how.all i need to do is when i click an item in the listbox it opens the coresponding window.
View 2 RepliesHow can i Minimize the window to the Taskbar?
im using:FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None
Is it possible to change the spacing windows have? and if so how? By spacing I mean the space that the taskbar reserves for itself.
View 6 RepliesIs there is away to hide my application from task bar?I have tried:Me.Hide(task bar.
View 3 RepliesI want to flash the taskbar application button orange if it is not focused
View 4 RepliesIs it possible to make my app only have one tab on the taskbar? I have already created all the forms and now i am 'tidying it up' and i want there to only be one tab for the whole app. Will i have to set one form as a parent and all the others as child forms? Or is there a setting that just needs to be turned off?
View 2 RepliesSo heres a image of what I'm trying to do [URL].. My application is a toolbar sort of thing.. I want it to be stuck to the user's taskbar and the '::'s in the example will be draggable areas so they can move the toolbar left and right above the taskbar.
What I need help doing is: 1. How can I get my app to stick to the users taskbar? I know I cant set the position to mine because different screen resolutions etc, is it possible to do?
2. How can I make the draggable areas only drag left and right and not up and down?
I have a form in an application I'm working on that normally displays full screen without a taskbar but provide the option to switch to a minimizable window with a taskbar. When I switch from full screen without taskbar to minimizable window with taskbar everything is ok. When I try to switch back to full screen the border disappears but the taskbar is still there and the form is not aligned properly.The text at the top is cut off somewhat and there's a small margin at the right edge that shouldn't be there.I put this code in a keydown event for the form.
If Me.FormBorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None Then
Me.ControlBox = True
Me.FormBorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.Sizable[code]....
How do I get the taskbar to disappear and the form to display properly when I return to the full screen mode?
I'm having problems with my VS2005 .Net2.0 VB.Net Windows forms application.When I start the application and work with it for a while it somehow disappears from the taskbar.To get the Application button back on the taskbar I use Alt+Tab to switch to the application and voila,.. the taskbar button is back.In my code and form I can't seem to find anything strange.ShowInTaskbar is set to trueFormborderstule = SizableIt is an MDI application that is used for administrative purposes on sql databases.
View 4 RepliesI'm working on one desktop application and need to recognize if/when user clicks on the application icon in taskbar(when application is running). So, it's about app. icon in taskbar to systry. You know application is running, user open a few more applications(word, email client ...) and then when he wants to work again with application he'll click on the aaplication icon in taskbar. I need to catch that click and do some stuff in the app.
View 4 RepliesI want to hide the taskbar when my application runs, so i can get a full screen view of the application form. I have a code but it doesnt seem to work. It's for my project. I put the declarations in the global declarations part. Declare Functions also i put separately. The rest of the code i put in a button click.[code]...
View 4 RepliesI am writing a vb application and i want it to run in the background and also appear int the taskbar ie no window will be opened. The main function of the application is to get data from an external database and send it to excel so it does not need to open a window just to run in the background and also appear in the task bar with options for connecting or disconnecting from the database.
I also want to know if its possible to send the data from vb application to a particular file in excel?
I am looking for a way to implement a PrograssBar on Application TaskBar item on Windows 7 as you can see in Windows 7 like when copying files! I need to do it with a few lines in Visual Basic .NET 2008. I know there is a Windows API Code Pack by Microsoft but it's a large collection and written in C#. How to do this in VB.NET without using a .dll reference?
View 2 RepliesShow/Hide application button in Taskbar
View 7 Repliesso so far I've gotten my console application to minimize itself, but I want it to be totally hidden: so I want to disable it from showing in the taskbar too. With a Windows form this was easy, but I'm not so sure about console apps.
View 2 RepliesI want to know how to start a forum hidden. I know I can just add Me.Hide() to the Window_Loaded event, But it's ugly. The user sees the form for a split second then it dissapears. I want to form to start up hidden. Little background on my program, it is a small taskbar application, Has a small notify icon. When the app is loaded. I only want the notify icon to be visible. I have done this by creating my own Main subroutine in a Module that I created. and I am laucnhing the application like so
Imports System.Windows.Application
Module MainModule
Sub Main()
Dim mainWin As New MainWindow
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Excuse me for posting this, but I have searched both Google along with this forum before asking this question, maybe I'm not using the right keywords but I apologize if it's easy to find.I would like to know how one could close a third-party window (application) if a specified string was found in the window title.
View 2 RepliesI would like to know how one could close a third-party window (application) if a specified string was found in the window title.
View 4 RepliesIf you have ever noticed in the Task Manager, when you right-click on the running task, you have many options which include 'Minimize' and 'Maximize'. Is there anyway to do achieve this in vb?
View 1 RepliesI am developing an application, and i need this application to be running in background (like our anti-virus programs) on system task bar.
and how to add right click menu for this icon on taskbar...
My app is a tray icon which scans the Outlook Inbox periodically. It seems, from testing in my VMWare WinXP machine, that the app stops Windows from shutting down. I press StartShutdown but nothing happens. I have to exit the app first then StartShutdown will shutdown the PC.
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Is there a property setting that prevents an empty row from being displayed in a DGV? I have a DGV that is populated manually, the dataset that contains the data has 2 rows in it. The DGV contains those 2 rows of data plus an empty one. The return value of the DataAdapter Fill is also 2.
View 2 RepliesI want to generate a (report) file for users to download, then display a message to users to show the process completed successfully.
Dim myFile As FileInfo = New FileInfo(<filepath>)
'My function to generate a report (this can take a few minutes)
GenerateReport(myFile.FullName)
[code].....
I want to generate a (report) file for users to download, then display a message to users to show the process completed successfully.
Dim myFile As FileInfo = New FileInfo(<filepath>)
'My function to generate a report (this can take a few minutes)
GenerateReport(myFile.FullName)
[code]....
However, when I use create a "save as" box, it seems to stop the message appearing at all.
Having trouble with properties in a Class, demonstrated by the code below.If create a class (person) that has another class (address) as a property and set the elements of the address, the set method on the first class never gets called.It also allows the property to be updated although the set method prevents this.
Module Module1
Class PostalAddress
Property Street1 As String[code]....
I added an splash screen to my app. Then in the project settings I selected it to be used for the splash screen. Now my app won't close when I try to exit my app. I have 'When Last Form Closes' selected for the shutdown mode. So I'm guessing the splash screen is calling Hide() instead of Close(). I can't find a way to get access to the splash screen object so I can try callling Close().
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I have created a custom combo that automatically drops when the combo receives focus. When the user uses the mouse to click on another control or the Windows Form the combo list is undropped but the click on the other control is never fired. Is there a way to avoid what appears to the user as a need to double click?