How to make form topmost to the application only?

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I am making excel add-in in which clicking on menu item or toolbar button, Form opened. I have set form's topmost to true but it remain topmost to all applications of windows xp. I just need to remain topmost to Microsoft Excel only.

I have choosed project in Visual Studio 2008, in Excel ->2003.

Please tell me how to do that with any way ........

Posted 10-Apr-10 3:13am

hiren.gujarati

Updated 10-Apr-10 10:24am

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Not Active · Answer 1 · 2010-04-10T10:26:00

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As you've seen topmost applies to the z-order of all active Windows. For what you want you need to set the form's parent as the Excel window.

Posted 10-Apr-10 10:26am

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