Question

How can I display something over all other application. I want to to display something over all form of my program and all other programs open on my desktop (not mine).

*Top Most doesn’t work I have tested and my browser can go OVER my application :S

Here is an image of when I use TopMost to TRUE. You can see my browser is over it…

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/5a98165605.png

Answer 1

You can use the form instance and set the property TopMost to True.

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If you want to be over all Windows, there are another way with Win32 Api calls.

Here is what you could do:

In your form class add :

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport('user32.dll')] public static extern bool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hWnd); 

In the form load you can add :

SetForegroundWindow(this.Handle); 

This should do the trick.

Update

TopMost should do the job BUT: Top most OR/AND the Win32 Api call will only work not inside Visual Studio (well for Vista and with VS2008 I tested it… I can’t tell for other). Try running the program with the .Exe from the /bin directory, it will works.