PRB: ShowInTaskBar Forms Still Appear When Set to False

• Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0, version 1.0
• Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 5.0, version 1.0

SYMPTOMS

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

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

The Windows CE 2.0 operating system does not support this functionality. It shows a taskbar item for all top-level windows.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a new Windows CE (HPC) Project in Visual Basic. 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.

Additional query words: wince vbce

Keywords : kbToolkit kbVBp500 kbVBp600 kbWinCE100 kbGrpVB
Version : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb