How to not lose focus in the parent form when opening a modeless form

[manchukuo]

Hello!, well that is the question i remember fixing this in MFC returning a false in the initdialog method, but how to do this in C#? :doh:

[OriginalGriff]

Override ShowWithoutActivation in the non-modal form:

    protected override bool ShowWithoutActivation
        {
        get { return true; }
        }

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[manchukuo]

This made the job, just some info for anyone else, using this with topmost property to true will not work, i think this is a bug on windows forms