[OT] Visual Basic - BUG: Focus Disappears After Minimizing VB Form with Usercontrol

["Rob Mouser" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi



Bit way OT and a long shot but does anyone know about the issue below and
of
any fixes/workarounds? Perhaps an API call?

For those that know me and my superior VB skills (NOT).......Yes, this is a
post on behalf of someone else!



Cheers



Rob



Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 177096



BUG: Focus Disappears After Minimizing VB Form with Usercontrol

Applies To

This article was previously published under Q177096

SYMPTOMS

If a form containing a UserControl is minimized in a Visual Basic
application, focus does not shift to another application. The expected
behavior is for the next application in the task order to receive the
focus.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed
at
the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Start a new Standard EXE project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by
default.

Click Add UserControl on the Project menu.

Close the UserControl designer window.

Add the UserControl to Form1.

>From the File menu, chose Make Project1.exe.

Start another application.

Run the exe that you created in step 5.

Minimize the Visual Basic Application.



NOTE: Focus does not shift to the application started in step 6 as
expected.

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows 5.0

Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows 6.0

Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows 5.0

Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows 6.0

Last Reviewed: 1/8/2003 (1.1)

Keywords: kbbug KB177096



Many thanks,



Rob





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