how to retain minimize effect in borderless winforms

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When there is a title bar and border to winform then minimize effect i,e. animation in which window will minimize to task bar slowly will play/occur. but when i remove the border of winform and try to minimize it the animation will not play. So friends how to retain this animation effect.?

Posted 16-Oct-12 1:42am

VIPINVIVEK

Updated 12-May-17 5:04am

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Aarti Meswania · Answer 1 · 2012-10-16T01:50:00

Solution 1

on some button's click or key/key combination's press events
in c#

C#

this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized;

in vb

VB

Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized

Happy Coding!
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Posted 16-Oct-12 1:50am

Aarti Meswania

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VIPINVIVEK 16-Oct-12 8:08am

Not minimizing the form aarti. If you observe the difference between minimizing the window with border and window without border you will find this window with border wont minimize as soon as you press button.it will minimize slowly to task bar. I want to retain the same effect in border less forms also.

Dulan Dias · Answer 2 · 2014-08-01T01:10:00

I think I know what you need.

This is your situation:
1. Border-less Windows Form
2. Minimize Button

To minimize you simply add the following code on the button's click event.

C#

this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized;

But, this will not give you the "Genie Effect" when the form is been minimized.

To gain that effect, in WPF, check the this link.

For WinForms, I couldn't find a solution yet.