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I am creating a Winform application in VS2010.
Now my question is that when I run my application the Window TaskBar should be hide.
I tried following code. It opens in maximized view but with Taskbar.

Please give me any sample code or suggestion.
Thanks in advance.

Please see attached SnapShot.
C#
this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
this.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
this.TopMost = true;
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Updated 25-Sep-13 19:42pm
v3

I have use Taskbar class then simply hide & show it.as like Taskbar.Hide() & TaskBar.Show()

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using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Diagnostics;


    /// <summary>
    /// Helper class for hiding/showing the taskbar and startmenu on
    /// Windows XP and Vista.
    /// </summary>
    public class Taskbar
    {
        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        private static extern int GetWindowText(IntPtr hWnd, StringBuilder text, int count);
        [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
        private static extern bool EnumThreadWindows(int threadId, EnumThreadProc pfnEnum, IntPtr lParam);
        [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
        private static extern System.IntPtr FindWindow(string lpClassName, string lpWindowName);
        [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
        private static extern IntPtr FindWindowEx(IntPtr parentHandle, IntPtr childAfter, string className, string windowTitle);
        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        private static extern IntPtr FindWindowEx(IntPtr parentHwnd, IntPtr childAfterHwnd, IntPtr className, string windowText);
        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        private static extern int ShowWindow(IntPtr hwnd, int nCmdShow);
        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        private static extern uint GetWindowThreadProcessId(IntPtr hwnd, out int lpdwProcessId);

        private const int SW_HIDE = 0;
        private const int SW_SHOW = 5;

        private const string VistaStartMenuCaption = "Start";
        private static IntPtr vistaStartMenuWnd = IntPtr.Zero;
        private delegate bool EnumThreadProc(IntPtr hwnd, IntPtr lParam);

        /// <summary>
        /// Show the taskbar.
        /// </summary>
        public static void Show()
        {
            SetVisibility(true);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Hide the taskbar.
        /// </summary>
        public static void Hide()
        {
            SetVisibility(false);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Sets the visibility of the taskbar.
        /// </summary>
        public static bool Visible
        {
            set { SetVisibility(value); }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Hide or show the Windows taskbar and startmenu.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="show">true to show, false to hide</param>
        private static void SetVisibility(bool show)
        {
            // get taskbar window
            IntPtr taskBarWnd = FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", null);

            // try it the WinXP way first...
            IntPtr startWnd = FindWindowEx(taskBarWnd, IntPtr.Zero, "Button", "Start");

            if (startWnd == IntPtr.Zero)
            {
                // try an alternate way, as mentioned on CodeProject by Earl Waylon Flinn
                startWnd = FindWindowEx(IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero, (IntPtr)0xC017, "Start");
            }

            if (startWnd == IntPtr.Zero)
            {
                // ok, let's try the Vista easy way...
                startWnd = FindWindow("Button", null);

                if (startWnd == IntPtr.Zero)
                {
                    // no chance, we need to to it the hard way...
                    startWnd = GetVistaStartMenuWnd(taskBarWnd);
                }
            }

            ShowWindow(taskBarWnd, show ? SW_SHOW : SW_HIDE);
            ShowWindow(startWnd, show ? SW_SHOW : SW_HIDE);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the window handle of the Vista start menu orb.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="taskBarWnd">windo handle of taskbar</param>
        /// <returns>window handle of start menu</returns>
        private static IntPtr GetVistaStartMenuWnd(IntPtr taskBarWnd)
        {
            // get process that owns the taskbar window
            int procId;
            GetWindowThreadProcessId(taskBarWnd, out procId);

            Process p = Process.GetProcessById(procId);
            if (p != null)
            {
                // enumerate all threads of that process...
                foreach (ProcessThread t in p.Threads)
                {
                    EnumThreadWindows(t.Id, MyEnumThreadWindowsProc, IntPtr.Zero);
                }
            }
            return vistaStartMenuWnd;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Callback method that is called from 'EnumThreadWindows' in 'GetVistaStartMenuWnd'.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="hWnd">window handle</param>
        /// <param name="lParam">parameter</param>
        /// <returns>true to continue enumeration, false to stop it</returns>
        private static bool MyEnumThreadWindowsProc(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr lParam)
        {
            StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder(256);
            if (GetWindowText(hWnd, buffer, buffer.Capacity) > 0)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(buffer);
                if (buffer.ToString() == VistaStartMenuCaption)
                {
                    vistaStartMenuWnd = hWnd;
                    return false;
                }
            }
            return true;
        }

}
 
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Mike Meinz 26-Sep-13 6:54am    
My 5. Very nice!
you can use api if you want to hide windows taskbar

first you need the handle of taskbar window then set it into api when

your exe run automatically detect handle of taskbar and hide it
 
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Surendrasinh Rathod 26-Sep-13 6:48am    
Thanks for give suggestion.

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