Question

I’ve developed a WinForm application that run in background. The main form is hidden and to show the application I have to click the icon in the traybar.

(To develop this application I followed this post: http://windowsclient.net/articles/notifyiconapplications.aspx )

Now I’d like to modify my application so that the main form is shown when I start it, and that is hidden in traybar only when the form is minimized.

How can I call the mainForm.Show() method in my custom ApplicationContext when the application starts?

Answer 1

Using the example source you linked to, so you will have to translate to your codebase, I added a call to ShowForm() in CalendarApplicationContext.InitializeContext().

This seemed to do what you wanted if i understood your request right.

    /// </summary>
    private void InitializeContext() 
    {
        ....
        this.exitContextMenuItem.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.exitContextMenuItem_Click);
        ShowForm();
    }