Icons Disapear from taskebar

udikantz

Hello , I'm facing a problem , when i open 2 dialogs in my project my application icon disappear instead i get the ugly .net default icon showing there are 2 windows open , when i click on it , i can see the two different windows with the icons , my question is how can i prevent my application icon to disappear and keep it visible no matter how many open dialogs I'm viewing. thanks in advance!

Net

Cracked Down

With addition to above question I am facing the same problem When we click ALTER + TAB to see/select the applications running currently it shows the same ugly icon in the list if anybody have solution please share with us!!! Thanks in advance Deep Happy Coding :)

Lost User

Rightclick on the solution in the 'Solution Explorer', and choose "Properties". Go to the tab labeled "Application", and verify that you have assigned an icon to the application (not just the mainform, as the mainform.icon != app.icon)

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udikantz

yes i got the icon set in the application tab and in the main form it still happens.

Net

Xmen Real

there is an Icon property of form, you have to change it for each form.

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Thanks Eddy for reply!!!!! This seems does not work......... solution provided by you works only to show the icon in the task bar but not when two form are opened or in the list appears after pressing ALTER + TAB keys In my case what you have provided is done already but still facing the same problem I thing either this is the bug in installer provided by the .net or it has to do with something with OS or with ICON size (as desktop icons are 32x32 and startup->program file,control panel->Add/remove program,taskbar icons are of 16x16) I am not sure about this what do you say??

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Thanks for reply Xmen!!! This also does not work i have done what yous said for each form in my application with addition to ShowInTaskBar property to true however icons disappears from task bar when two or more forms are opened in the application specifically OS creates the stack(Re-groups) if other more applications are opened, and this time the icon of the stack representing my application change to icon which we can see when we choose new icon file in the Visual studio

Xmen Real

does your icon contains 16x16 format ?

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absolutely!!!!!!! we can not provide 32x32 icon for form if we do so, we wont see it at the start of the title bar of the Form :)

Xmen Real

SaveTigers wrote:

we wont see it at the start of the title bar of the Form

that means its something wrong with your windows

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musefan

What are you creating your Icons with? As far as i know windows requires different size icons for different things. i.e. you need to create an icon that supports multiple resolutions in order for them to be displayed in all instances. Check this[^] out; its free, and always works for me :)

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thanks musefan!!! I was creating the icon form VS-2005 I did not used any other utility to create icon let me use this and check if it works anyways thanks for exploring with this tool Happy coding Deep :)

Henry Minute

I am not sure, but I think that this could be caused by one of the Task-Bar settings. Right-Click on the Task-Bar and select Properties from the context menu. There is an option on the first page (XP) for grouping icons, try changing this setting. If it doesn't work, don't forget to reset it. I nearly always forget to do that, and then forget that I have forgotten. :) Gets awfully confusing.

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Lost User

I say that we build a little testproject to verify whether all is working as it should be (ruling out faults with device drivers and stuff) :) Can you please; * Create a new C# project - a normal executable * Download the icon from here[^] * Set the application icon to the one that you just downloaded (under projects' properties) * Modify your Program.cs file to look like this;

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication7 (namespace is generated, don't change yours!)
{
static class Program
{
/// <summary>
/// The main entry point for the application.
/// </summary>
[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
Application.EnableVisualStyles();

        Form1A.Icon = System.Drawing.Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(Application.ExecutablePath);
        Form1B.Icon = Form1A.Icon;
        Form1A.Show();
        Form1B.Show();

        while (Form1A.Visible && Form1B.Visible)
            Application.DoEvents();
    }
    private static Form1 Form1A = new Form1();
    private static Form1 Form1B = new Form1();
}

}

This should compile into an executable that shows two icons - even when you alt-tab. Can you verify this?

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Oh thats gr8 Eddy!!!!!!! thanks a lot It seems like ICONS created from the VS-2005 have some bug ..........this is what prooved from the above discussion........ with your code problem which i was getting (ALTER+TAB) got solved,however problem with status bar stack is still the same............