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How to bring a form at the top of all other open windows

I have an application that may not be the top window and is checking new messages every minute. If I find a new message I want to display a form with
the new message and bring this form at the top of every other application currently running so that the user can't miss, that there is a new message.

How can I bring a form to the very top of every other app? If I only set BringToFront it's in the front of my application windows.

Tosch
Nov 21 '05 #1
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Tosch wrote:
I have an application that may not be the top window and is checking new messages every minute. If I find a new message I want to display a form with
the new message and bring this form at the top of every other application currently running so that the user can't miss, that there is a new message.

How can I bring a form to the very top of every other app? If I only set BringToFront it's in the front of my application windows.

Tosch


Set Form.Topmost = true.

Chris
Nov 21 '05 #2
> How can I bring a form to the very top of every other app?

form.topmost=true

Nov 21 '05 #3

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