how to put winform behind all open programs vb.net

Question

I'm calling a vb.net exe from a program in java, and i want it to stay behind all of the already opened programs.

I read that you can kinda bring to front with

TopMost

set to

true

, but i find no way to put it in the back.

There's some workarounds, like

setvisible=false

the previous form and setting to

true

after that, but that isn't quite good with my application. Thank you!

Answer 1

Calling the form's SendToBack (Inherited from Control) method from the Shown event handler is the key. Calling it from load for example, won't do anything since the window isn't "ready" yet anyway.

Private Sub Form1_Shown(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Shown
    SendToBack()
End Sub

how to put winform behind all open programs vb.net

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