Dock a form to the desktop

adrian.bennett

I am trying to dock a form to the desktop like the taskbar is but I
have been unable to figure out how to do this. Can anyone help?

Thanks

Mar 25 '07 #1

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Mattias Sjögren

>I am trying to dock a form to the desktop like the taskbar is but I

>have been unable to figure out how to do this. Can anyone help?

The (native) API for doing this is SHAppBarMessage. Have a look at
http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/...arMessage.html
Mattias

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Mar 25 '07 #2

james

Check this out

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/U...f-ff60795fd21e

Mar 25 '07 #3

adrian.bennett

On Mar 26, 7:50 am, "james" <james.w...@gmail.comwrote:

Check this out

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/U...aspx?SampleGui...

Thanks heaps guys

Mar 26 '07 #4

adrian.bennett

On Mar 26, 7:50 am, "james" <james.w...@gmail.comwrote:

Check this out

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/U...aspx?SampleGui...

I implemented the above solution and it works great, but now I find
that context menus and toolbar dropdowns are pushed to the outside of
the docked area. I tried manually calling the context menu but the
same happens.

As a test I created a user control to mimic the behaviour of the
context menu and that worked fine. Before I go ahead and code a
replacement context menu I thought i would ask to see if anyone has
any ideas.

Mar 27 '07 #5

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