You have to use interop. Import the ShowWindow method from user32 and call
the method with the SW_SHOWNOAVTIVATE constant.
[DllImport("User32.dll")]
public extern static int ShowWindow( System.IntPtr hWnd, short cmdShow);
[Flags()]
public enum ShowWindow
{
SW_HIDE = 0,
SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1,
SW_NORMAL = 1,
SW_SHOWMINIMIZED = 2,
SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED = 3,
SW_MAXIMIZE = 3,
SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE = 4,
SW_SHOW = 5,
SW_MINIMIZE = 6,
SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE = 7,
SW_SHOWNA = 8,
SW_RESTORE = 9,
SW_SHOWDEFAULT = 10,
SW_FORCEMINIMIZE = 11,
SW_MAX = 11
}
The call below does the job
ShowWindow(myWindow.Handle,(short)ShowWindow.SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE);
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