ShowInTaskBar property

[Guest]

Form.ShowInTaskbar Property is not supported in the .Net Compact Framwork.

So all forms created by the main form are showing in the task bar on
Windows CE, even if the sub-forms are modal dialogs. Setting Form.Text = ""
has no effect.

1. Create a Form1 (main form) with a button "create a new form".
2. When that button is clicked, create a new form, Form2, and use
ShowDialog() to show it as a modal dialog.
3. Run the application to show the Form2.
4. On pocket PC device, bring up the taskbar,
5. You will see both forms are listed in the taskbar, if you activate the
form1, the device seems hang because form2 is a modal dialog.

Any way to prevent the form2 showing in the task bar on a Pocket PC device?

Thanks,
Vlad

 

[Daniel Moth]

This gets better with CF 2.0 but even with cf 1.0 the well known workaround
of setting the text to "" should work for you:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2005/06/formowner-in-netcf-20.html

If you are still having problems, post the repro code that uses the "" trick
so we can see where it goes wrong.

Cheers
Daniel

 

[Sergey Bogdanov]

See this:
http://blog.opennetcf.org/sbogdanov/PermaLink.aspx?guid=749c4ca6-ef9c-4362-86a1-5a184cc20637