Hide form and restore form with vb.net

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Dear All

I created chat application with vb.net but I have a problem with hide form and restore form back. I mean my application ran already but it hide with notify icon
and when user run it again, it want to restore form chat application back.

I tried it with this code:

VB

Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal nCmdShow As SHOW_WINDOW) As Boolean
Dim p() As Process = Process.GetProcessesByName("mChat")
If p.Length > 1 Then
    ShowWindow(p(0).MainWindowHandle, SHOW_WINDOW.SW_RESTORE)
End If

But it can not restore.

any idea to do that?

Thanks

Posted 23-May-12 21:06pm

Joe.ce007

Updated 23-May-12 21:15pm

Prasad_Kulkarni

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Menon Santosh · Answer 1 · 2012-05-23T21:23:00

Solution 2

it is very easy, first implement a notifyicon now

to make it visible use following code

VB

if (!me.Visible)
	{
		me.Visible = true;
		me.Show();
		me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal;
	}

to hide the form

VB

me.Windowstate=Formwindowstate.Minimized
me.hide

Posted 23-May-12 21:23pm

Menon Santosh