Hi,

I have a windows forms application and excel open. When I switch from App to excel then excel is visible. Excel is restored form, so I see portion of my app in background.And now when I click somewhere in app the app does not come forward or on top of excel. The focus is in a textbox in my application but excel is also out of focus but on top of App.

This is happening with one windows client only and not others. I feel it is nothing to do with .NET and rather with how Windows works.


Please help.


Thanks,
Sarvo

Hi Sarvo,

It looks like the Excel window is set to top-most. However, I don't find we can set an Excel window top-most at all.

If you run another program, e.g. Notepad, does this problem exists when you switch between the Notepad window and the Excel window?

Sincerely,
Linda Liu

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Hi Linda,

I am the same guy who asked the query in first place. I have a different sign in id now.
It is not an issue when switching between notepad and excel. It is between .NET generated Windows application and excel. When switching from Excel document to application by clicking on any textbox in the application, the mouse focus switches to the textbox, however the excel is also on top of the application. The same thing does not happend when clicking on the border of the application like top/corners etc.

After seeing your reply I also tried it with notepad, word document and it is the same with them too.

A brief information about my windows application. It is built on container classes and the forms in display or in fact UserControl in the main window/form. The textbox I am focusing is also a UserControl reused accross in the application.

Any pointers would be of great help.


Regards,
Sarvo/Saru

Any updates for this issue. Could you please redirect me to a proper forum orperson who could help with the issue.

Thanks,
Sarvo/Saru/Sarvotham