Changing the the application title and icon displayed on taskbar without changing the Form.Text and Form.Icon

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The task seems to be a simple one but I cannot find a simple way to accomplish it.

I want to change application icon and title on Win7 taskbar without changing the Form.Text and Form.Icon.

Painiting custom border seems to be a pain (particularly as it may interfere with the Glass/Aero).

Another approach is to use the MainForm.IsMdi = true and MainForm.ShowOnTaskbar = false with dummy child form hidden behing the main one. But it is not very elegant and definitelly breaks Aero.

Is there something much simpler that I am missing here?

I'll appreciate any advice.

Thanks

Posted 10-Mar-10 12:49pm

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Alaric Dailey · Answer 1 · 2010-03-10T14:33:00

For consistency, the icon in your taskbar is the icon on your form (so it makes sense to the user).

If you want to do this, the only way I can think to do is some "slight of hand".

Change the "show in taskbar" property to false
Create a new form and force it to stay minimized
change your icons as you want on your new form

a better choice might be to do this interaction with the "notify icon" and hide this forms taskbar button.