BUG: ShowInTaskBar Forms Still Appear When Set to False

 Last reviewed: February 10, 1998
Article ID: Q180750
The information in this article applies to:
  • Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 5.0, version 1.0 on the following platform: NT

SYMPTOMS

Forms with the ShowInTaskBar property set to False are still displayed in the Windows CE Taskbar.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Create a new Windows CE project in Visual Basic 5.0. Form1 is created by default.

  2. Set the ShowInTaskbar property to False on Form1.

  3. Press the F5 key to run the application, and note that the form still appears in the taskbar. 
Keywords          : vb5all vbce
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform          : NT WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbpending

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Last reviewed: February 10, 1998
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