Vb.net - starting form appears but other applications come to the front

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After the splash screen appears and fades away, the main form appears but goes behind some other program's windows like Windows Explorer or Firefox. What do I have to do so that it comes and stays in the front of all other windows? Thanks for any help.

And is there a way to make a form appear on top of all other windows of all open applications? For example, if I want to remind myself every 5 minutes to do something (by showing a MessageBox) until I close that reminder program, is it possible to make the message box or a small form appear on top of all other things going on on the screen?

What I have tried:

I have just searched around for answers but the searches lead to another question. BringToFront is probably of little help when some other program's window appears in front.

Posted 16-Aug-21 3:55am

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Updated 16-Aug-21 4:06am

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You'll have to use user32.dll: c# - How to make a window always stay on top in .Net? - Stack Overflow[^] See the clammum solution - it's not in VB, it's pretty obvious code.

Posted 16-Aug-21 4:06am

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-16T04:03:00

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You can use the Form.TopMost Property (System.Windows.Forms) | Microsoft Docs[^].

Posted 16-Aug-21 4:03am

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