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c#wpf.net-4.0windowtaskbar
SepehrM
SepehrM

Reputation: 1097

Show icon in taskbar for hidden windows

When I set the main window's visibility to hidden, No icon is shown in taskbar, so I have no control over the window to show it again. I want for the application's icon to be visible even when I hide the window, and to show the window when I click it's button in the taskbar. (something like minimize behavior)
How can I achieve that using WPF and .Net 4.0 in C#?
Edit: I mean the icon in taskbar (usually in the left and middle of the horizontal taskbar) not the notifyicon in system tray.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2621

Answers (1)

drew_w
drew_w

Reputation: 10430

So, based on "comments" section, what you are looking to do is minimize or hide a window but still show some windows or dialogues that the window opens. First if you want to keep your window in the task bar, you should minimize with:

this.WindowState = WindowState.Minimized

That can be called from anywhere within the form. As you mentioned, though, this will close hide any dialogues that have this window set as the parent. The key, then is to not use this window as the parent. Lets say your dialogues inherit from form. You want to use:

newWindow.Show();

I am guessing that you are calling "ShowDialog", which ties the window state to the parent window state. Try this out and hopefully it will help!

Edit

One more note: the same is actually true of MessageBoxes, but the way to control the parent form is with the first parameter of the MessageBox.Show() call. If you pass in a form as the first parameter, that will be the parent, otherwise the parent will not be set.

Upvotes: 2

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