How to keep the MFC application in the taskbar

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Hello ,

i developing a dialog based application in MFC,i got few doubts in my application so kindly help me to solve those

1) After running the app i want my dialog to be hidden and keep in taskbar.The dialog should be opened only after clicking from the taskbar.
2)Even after keeping my dialog in the taskbar ,i want that to be runned continously in hidden mode like Windows Taskmanager .

Kindly help me to solve the above two points,will be thankfull if this thing is solved

Posted 5-Sep-12 17:47pm

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Santhosh G_ · Answer 1 · 2012-09-05T19:22:00

1) After running the app i want my dialog to be hidden and keep in taskbar.The dialog should be opened only after clicking from the taskbar.

Ans: Call ShowWindow( SW_HIDE ) to hide your window, and it will not terminate your process.

creating system tray icon
http://codingmisadventures.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/creating-a-system-tray-icon-using-visual-c-and-win32/[^]

Application to run in minimized mode.
http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/threads/319152/creating-a-program-that-runs-as-a-system-tray-icon[^]