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Shailesh Jaiswal
Shailesh Jaiswal

Reputation: 3654

How to minimize and maximize winform from taskbar?

I have a Winforms application, which I'm able to minimize by clicking on the corresponding button on the top right of the window; I can then maximize it by clicking on this application's taskbar icon.

My problem is that if the window is maximized, it should be minimized when I click on the taskbar icon again, and it's currently not happening.

How can I make this behavior happen? I don't want to have to use NotifyIcon or system tray.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3229

Answers (3)

Monika
Monika

Reputation: 73

const int WS_MINIMIZEBOX = 0x20000;
const int CS_DBLCLKS = 0x8;
protected override CreateParams CreateParams
{
    get
    {
        CreateParams cp = base.CreateParams;
        cp.Style |= WS_MINIMIZEBOX;
        cp.ClassStyle |= CS_DBLCLKS;
        return cp;
    }
}

Upvotes: 7

Jones Joseph
Jones Joseph

Reputation: 4938

You can do it with no borders too.. requires additional coding

Upvotes: 0

Dmitri Trofimov
Dmitri Trofimov

Reputation: 574

Try to check what's going on in LocationChanged, Move, RegionChanged, Resize, ResizeBegin, ResizeEnd, SizeChanged events. Could be that some code in any of these events is blocking the behavior you described.

I am not seeing the described problem on a new empty form.

Update: I am using Window 7 Pro.

Upvotes: -1

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