Is this a safe way to hide the main form?

[Peter Steele]

I'm writing a tray application and I of course want to hide the main form
when the appstarts. I've experimented with a couple of techniques to do
this, including setting Opacity to 0, but this seems a bit kludgy. I ended
up doing this:

static void Main()
{
new MyAppForm();
Application.Run();
}

This differs from a normal Main by calling the void version of the Run
method and moving the new call out as a separate statement. I haven't been
able to find any good description as to whether this is a safe thing to do.
It seems to work fine and my service behavs as expected, responding properly
to its context menu accesses. I like this better than setting Opacity to 0.
Another solution I experiented with was to use the normal Run call:

Application.Run(new MyAppForm());

and in the constructor of the main form call Hide(), but for some reason
this doesn't work. So, unless someone has a better solution or tells me that
I shouldn't the void Run call, I'll stick with doing it this way.

Peter Steele
CIENA Corp.

[Vijaye Raji]

So, if you're not ever going to show your main form, why don't you create a
console application? Or why don't you get rid of your main form altogether?

-vJ

"Peter Steele" <ps*****@ciena.com> wrote in message
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I'm writing a tray application and I of course want to hide the main form
when the appstarts. I've experimented with a couple of techniques to do
this, including setting Opacity to 0, but this seems a bit kludgy. I ended
up doing this:

static void Main()
{
new MyAppForm();
Application.Run();
}

This differs from a normal Main by calling the void version of the Run
method and moving the new call out as a separate statement. I haven't been
able to find any good description as to whether this is a safe thing to do. It seems to work fine and my service behavs as expected, responding properly to its context menu accesses. I like this better than setting Opacity to 0. Another solution I experiented with was to use the normal Run call:

Application.Run(new MyAppForm());

and in the constructor of the main form call Hide(), but for some reason
this doesn't work. So, unless someone has a better solution or tells me that I shouldn't the void Run call, I'll stick with doing it this way.

Peter Steele
CIENA Corp.

[C# Learner]

Peter Steele wrote:

[...]

static void Main()
{
new MyAppForm();
Application.Run();
}

[...]

Check out this link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sinception.asp
- or -
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G1A022AB7

Side-note: should this be added to some faq?