Question

I would like to know how to open an image without having a window open, so its like the the image is floating on my desktop with no border. thanks

Answer 1

What you want to do is to draw an image on the screen without a visible window border around it. Whether a window will be created is a totally different question. And as it turns out, you have to have a window. It just won’t be visible. So:

Create a window, making sure to set the following in InitializeComponent():

this.ControlBox = false;
this.FormBorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None;
this.MaximizeBox = false;
this.MinimizeBox = false;
this.ShowIcon = false;
this.ShowInTaskbar = false;

Then, override OnPaintBackground for that window, as follows:

protected override void OnPaintBackground( WinForms.PaintEventArgs e )
{
    e.Graphics.DrawImage( Image, 0, 0, Width, Height );
}