Running Two Win Forms at the Beginning of Apps

Behrouz Hosseini

Hi,
Can you please let me know how I can run two windows form at the beginning of an application which one of them can be something like a "Quick Start" form or "Tip of Day" form and also the main application form which is running at the background and of course is visible but not accessible until the user cancel of finish the outer form?

Thanks for your time in advance

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Javeed M Shaikh15y ago
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Hi Behrouz,

did you try to load the Tip of the day form from the form load/ event of the main form.

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Javeed M Shaikh15y ago
Hi Behrouz,

can you try this in your program.cs

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
new Form2().Show(); //open Form2
}
}
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Sam Hobbs15y ago
Yes, the ApplicationContext class (I described in the other thread) is designed for this purpose. It is for applications with more than one top-level forms. Sometimes it is not obvious how to use it but I think that for this it would be easy to use as shown in my sample. That other thread does show other possibilities.
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Vulpes15y ago
We had something similar to what you want to do in this thread a day or two ago:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Forums/Thread/144905/splashscreen-issue-main-form-goes-backward-when-splashs.aspx
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Behrouz Hosseini15y ago
Hi Javeed,
Thanks for your help but there are still some issue here!
As you said, What I did was:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
TipOfDay foo = new TipOfDay();
foo.ShowDialog();
}
This is working but when I run the app just the Tip of day appears on the screen and AFTER canceling it the Main form pops up.
Is there a way to have both on the screen at same time but the "Tip of Day" one at the top?

Thanks again for your time
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