Get The Window In Front Of The Desktop But Behind The Explorer Icons?
Jul 31, 2011how to get the window in front of the desktop, but behind the explorer icons?
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Make A Form With Icons That Have Labels Are Like Desktop Icons On Your Desktop?
Mar 20, 2010I would like to make a image in the form representing the icon and a label below it to represent name but is there a easy way to do this.
View 2 RepliesStart Explorer.exe - Switching To A New Desktop It Starts A New Instance Of App In That Desktop?
Sep 5, 2011Some of u already know I'm making a 'virtual desktop'- thing.Only one problem. When switching to a new desktop it starts a new instance of my app in that desktop (works) and on the form load event it says process.start("explorer.exe") <- here is the problem. It only shows a window not the actually bar.Also this may be important it shows the window, but when I navigate to explorer.exe 'C:Windowsexplorer.exe' and open it there. The explorer bar does show up.
View 14 RepliesOpening Form Causes Another Desktop App To Come To The Front?
Jul 25, 2011I had started a similar thread http:[url].... in May but got side tracked, tried to resurrect it by posting back to it but not getting any response so I am starting anew.I have a .net 2.0, VS2010 application. I have users that occasionaly have the following occur:
Open my application, do some work, leave it open go to another application, excel, IE, Firefox, outlook come back to my application, open a new form My application form opens but instead of it being on top with the focus some other application that was previously opened (the excel, IE, etc.) pops up the user can minimize the offending application and there is my form or go to the taskbar and select my application and there is the form
This post echos my problem: http:[url]....Although my app is a windows form app.The issue arises if I had been checking my email for example in outlook or I may have had IE open for example, so the other aplications on on the desktop not minimized. Both my app and the Outlook(the other application is not important it happens with any open application) are open on the desktop. I finish checking email, I click on my app to bring it to the foreground. I then click on a button that results in opening another form. My "I am working" form pops up. The main app now ready to display the new form closes the"I am working" form, outlook comes to the foreground and I can then see the new form in my app get displayed behind outlook.
The code flow is my app is opened, a midi child is created in the main app window.a double click on a contol causes a background worker to be started. That background worker opens a form that just shows a spinning ajax control with the words "working" in it. Meanwhile the app is busy prepping a form for display.When the form is ready to be displayed the background worker is cancelled which removes the popup form and then the newly constructed form is displayed.
At first I thought this had something to do with the background worker and a different thread being created but that is not the case.I can replace the background worker with a simple popup of a modeless dialog. Of course any work done in the background worker is not done but the modeless dialog will not block the main app. And when the main app closes the modeless dialog I get the same behavior with the last opened desktop app coming to the foreground and I can see my newly created form popup behind it.
I can of course just as soon as return from the call to close the working form give my app focus but that still results in the other desktop app coming to the foreground briefly and then my app coming to the foreground, not really a solution. With that bit of info it seems that my application is for some reason giving up focus between the time the working form is closed and the main app new form pops up.My code is way to big to post and it involves DB reads so it is just not feasible to post it.I tried recreating the scenario in a much smaller project that really did not represent much of the complexity of my application and could not get the issue reproduced.
Adding Icons To A Desktop?
Feb 6, 2009Is there a way in VB .Net to add specific icons to a desktop like "Computer", "Network",Recycle bin", and "User" files? I want to be ablse to use it for XP and Vista, but Vista as a main priority. In vista you can Right Click the desktop select "Properties", click "Change Desktop Items" in the left hand corner, and then select the icons you want. I thought that maybe there is a way to do it by calling that, or maybe a way to do it in the registry.
View 1 RepliesMaking Desktop Icons?
Apr 12, 2009i have visual basics 2008 express and i made a app, how can i change the icon that it displays when on the desktop, and how can i get it t
View 2 RepliesMove Desktop Icons?
Mar 2, 2009I don't know if it is possible but does anyone know how to move desktop icons?
View 1 RepliesListView With Icons (Images) Like Windows Explorer?
Oct 15, 2009I know that i have to drag and drop the ListView control from the Control Box into my form
Then goto Properties and choose view: LargeIcons/SmallIcons.
Hide And Show Desktop Icons?
Dec 19, 2011I want to create a simple utility app that emulates a right click on the desktop -> view -> show desktop icons - so I can by the click of one button hide and show the desktop icons.[code]...
View 16 RepliesHiding Desktop Icons With Code
Dec 17, 2011Is it possible to hide desktop icons with code? If yes could someone give me clues?
View 7 RepliesMake Windows App Go Behind Desktop Icons?
Jul 26, 2010is there a way to make my windows app go behind desktop icons?
View 6 RepliesMove Down Desktop Icons At App Startup?
Oct 15, 2009I am currently developing some application that's useful for me. And now I have one doubt about something.. My form has 15px Height and 100% screen Width, and it's located at 0,0 coordinates. This means that vissualy, it's little small.I've seen many applications that for preventing this kind of visual method from being positioned above desktop icons and windows, they manage to "Displace" everything down.[url]...
View 6 RepliesShow / Hide Desktop Icons?
Apr 2, 2010I'm trying to make a tray application to allow me to easily show and hide my icons. I did a bit of research and found this [code]...
View 6 RepliesVS 2008 Count How Many Icons The Desktop Has On It?
Aug 4, 2010how would i count how many icons the desktop has on it? and if i could can i read them
View 1 RepliesEnumerate Systray Icons Without Looking Into Explorer's Toolbar Control?
Feb 3, 2010I am trying to find a way (VB or C#) to read items that should be present in the systray without looking into the items in explorer's toolbar control. Basic idea is to emulate the systray on a shell other than explorer.exe
View 3 RepliesSetup And Deployment - Choice Of Icons For Desktop?
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I'm practicing using the setup and deployment project. I can add a shortcut to the desktop and give it an icon to display without problem. Many applications have a choice of icons to display for the desktop icon; when we right-click on the icon and choose "change icon" there is a box that appears giving the user a choice of different styles of icons to use for the programme. My question is: how can I give the user a choice of icons to be able to select which one to display? Do I have to make a dll file or is it another method?
Show / Hide Desktop Icons In Program?
Jul 24, 2008Is there a way to Show/Hide the desktop icons in .NET?I tried manually editing the HideIcons subkey in the registry through code, but it didn't take for some reason.I also tried calls to Win API methods FindWindowA but i'm not the best at handling unmanaged code.
View 4 RepliesVS 2008 : Desktop Icons Are Created In Some Computer While Not In Others?
Mar 21, 2012I am having a problem I have created a program which will create Shortcuts by using CLSID. (Edd Bott say God Mode)The problem is it runs fine on some computer but in other it did not work fine.
View 5 RepliesVS 2008 Desktop Icons Are Created In Some Computer While Not In Others
Jan 11, 2010I am having a problem I have created a program which will create Shortcuts by using CLSID. (Edd Bott say God Mode) The problem is it runs fine on some computer but in other it did not work fine.
View 1 RepliesVS 2010 Hide Desktop Icons In Windows 7?
Aug 24, 2010this code works in every other version of windows, why not 7?
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Listview Not Showing Icons When Launched From Desktop Icon
Oct 10, 2009I have created a project that uses a listview associated to an imagelist (LargeImagelist, I have set the size as 100 x 75 and 32 bit depth), that displays information from a database along with an image from the image list. My listview is set to tilemode so that I can control the size of the tiles to get two columns of six. The image list is populated when the form is loaded from all the images in a specific folder, this part is working appropriately as I can get a picturebox working consistently that references an image from the imagelist.
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VS 2008 - Obtain A List Of Desktop Icons And Add Them To A ListView?
Apr 14, 2010I need to obtain a list of desktop icons and add them to a ListView. I'm currently doing this:
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It points to the direct path the icons should be located under the user profile. However, for some reason I've yet to determine, not all of the icons are in this directory.
Hide Start Button / Task Bar / ALL Desktop Icons Except App When App Starts
Aug 15, 2011I was wondering if it is possible to hide all desktop icons EXCEPT my application's shortcut ?
View 2 RepliesVS 2010 Function / Code To Properly Reload Desktop Icons?
May 13, 2011Does anybody know the code to refresh and reload desktop icons, you know how after installations of programs it sometimes refreshes the desktop? That is exactly what I need and what I am looking for. Someone please help me out here because I tried searching on google and could not find any proper code.
View 5 RepliesBuild Setup File With Creating Icons In Desktop And Quick Launch Bar?
May 17, 2009how can i get the folder path for the system tray or how can i buid a setup file that install a icon in the system tray using VS 2005.I know how to build setup file with creating icons in desktop and quick launch bar, but wanted to know how to add the icon into system tray after i install it
View 1 RepliesRefresh Desktop And Windows Explorer?
Jun 2, 2011I try to find out a way to refresh desktop and Window Explorer after change in registry.
I use VB.Net 2008 and my OS is Windows7.
I Show/Hide File Extension in Registry with this [code]...
Using The SetWindowPos To Set A Window To The Front To Capture It?
Feb 28, 2012I am using the SetWindowPos to set a window to the front to capture it (not a window of my own application). However, this works from time to time & that is what worries me.
My declaration:
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This does work, if just, let's say have forms open, but it doesn't when I minimize everything & get to the desktop (with that taskbar button). It also returns 1400 error a lot, even with running as administrator.
VS 2005 Window Bring To Front
Oct 24, 2009So I have this code to make a "windows taskbar". When you click on an item, it's supposed to bring that window to the front. The only problem is that's not happening. When I use Debug.WriteLine, it has the right window title, except it doesn't come to the front. What's wrong? There is no EntryPointNotFoundException or anything, it just doesn't bring the window to the front.
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Drag A Listviewitem To Desktop , Windows Explorer?
Dec 28, 2010How do you drag a listviewitem, to desktop, windows explorer, Ect...
For example, i got a listviewitem in a listview, and the text is the name of a file, and the Tag the filename, in a string... When i drag the item, to the desktop, or a folder in Windows Explorer, it will automaticly create a shortcut or something...
How To Drag A Listviewitem, To Desktop, Windows Explorer
Feb 5, 2009How do you drag a listviewitem, to desktop, windows explorer, Ect...For example, i got a listviewitem in a listview, and the text is the name of a file, and the Tag the filename, in a string... When i drag the item, to the desktop, or a folder in Windows Explorer, it will automaticly create a shortcut or something.
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