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I am trying to develop a small VB.NET server application that runs in the
background and places an icon in the Windows Taskbar.
When the user double clicks on the taskbar icon the application window
should appear and when they minimise, it should minimise back to the task
bar...

Any ideas how I do this?

Thanks in advance
Jul 21 '05 #1
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