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bucketman
bucketman

Reputation: 463

How to minimize a single Windows application form in C#

I have two forms, Form1 and Form2. I currently have a button in the startup form(Form1) that loads up Form2. What I would like to do is have Form1 become minimized and only show Form2 once it is told to load so that Form1 is not in the background while Form 2 is shown.

So far I have tried things such as:

this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized;

but the problem I'm having is that it causes Form2 to become minimized as well. Is there a way to specifically cause only Form1 to be affected or work around this problem?

below you will find my code, I may have made some mistakes!

  Form2 add = new Form2();
        this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized;
        add.ShowDialog();

I had also tried putting the windowstate behind the showdialog but it may not work because it will only execute after the dialog is done working.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4528

Answers (1)

Equalsk
Equalsk

Reputation: 8224

Your issue is due to two things.

  1. You're using ShowDialog which launches Form2 as a modal dialog. Hint: Go read about modal dialogs
  2. You need to minimize after showing Form2

Change your code to this:

var add = new Form2();
add.Show();
WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized;

Upvotes: 4

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