Hiding windows and taskbar icon

[dosman711]

Is there any way to hide the windows and taskbar icons of an application and still let it run in the background? Any help would be appreciated

[Andrew275]

You can set the ShowInTaskbar property of the form to false.

[pareshgh]

not sure about hiding the Taskbar tray ICONS though.

Paresh

[dosman711]

More importantly though, is it possible to hide the Form window or console window of an application? I'm trying to write a simple server program that would run and then hide itself. I've got a working program, but as of right now i'm unable to hide it. Any help would be appreciated, or ideas on how this can be accomplished.

[WillemM]

Create a console application and set in the project properties that it's a windows application. This will make it run in background. The only thing you will need to do is add some code like:

while(true)
{
    blahblah();
}

If you want to create server application I recommend writing a windows service.. this is better for your kind of application. It will automaticly run and you can only shut it down when logged in as system administrator

[dosman711]

Thanks much for your reply, this helps immensly. As for a service, I tried that at first, but I was unable to make MessageBoxes show from a service, so I decided to go with the hidden console idea. Thanks!