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Is there a way to call MessageBox.Show that appears in the taskbar?

It would probably be best to just create a custom form and display it of course, but being a lazy programmer I want to avoid redoing the default Error and Alert notification icons you get with a good old fashioned MessageBox.Show call.

A: 

Implement an IWin32Window, return the handle as IntPtr.Zero (desktop), then display the message box with that window as the parent.

Tom Anderson
+1  A: 
private static Image GetImage(MessageBoxIcon icon)
{
    switch (icon)
    {
        case MessageBoxIcon.Error:
            return System.Drawing.SystemIcons.Error.ToBitmap();
        case MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation:
            return System.Drawing.SystemIcons.Exclamation.ToBitmap();
        case MessageBoxIcon.Information:
            return System.Drawing.SystemIcons.Information.ToBitmap();
        case MessageBoxIcon.Question:
            return System.Drawing.SystemIcons.Question.ToBitmap();
    }
    return null;
}
Dog Ears
A: 

try this:

MessageBox.Show("Test", "Test", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1,  MessageBoxOptions.DefaultDesktopOnly);

see the MessageBoxOptions enum.

Note: There are some multi threading side effect to the usage of this, see the article How To Display A User Interface From A Daemon.

Davy Landman
Apparently, any MessageBox.Show without a parent specified appears in the taskbar.
Jeremy