What Is the "Right" Way to Bring a Windows Forms Application to the Foreground

How can I bring my application window to the front?

Use Control.BringToFront:

myForm.BringToFront();

What is the right way to bring a Windows Forms Application to the foreground?

Have you tried Form.Activate?

This code seems to do what you want, by restoring the form to normal size if minimized and then activating it to set the focus:

if (this.WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized)
{
    this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal;
}

this.Activate();

Warning: this is annoying! If it's just an app for your personal use, as you say, maybe you can live with it. :)

Bring another application to front

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("User32.dll")]
private static extern bool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr handle);

private IntPtr handle;

private void button4_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Process[] processName = Process.GetProcessesByName("ProgramName");
    if (processName.Length == 0)
    {
        //Start application here
        Process.Start("C:\\bin\\ProgramName.exe");
    }
    else
    {
        //Set foreground window
        handle = processName[0].MainWindowHandle;
        SetForegroundWindow(handle);
    }
}

If you also wish to show the window even if it is minimized, use:

if (IsIconic(handle))
    ShowWindow(handle, SW_RESTORE);

How to show form in front in C#

Simply

yourForm.TopMost = true;

How to bring a form already shown up to the very foreground and focus it?

You should use the BringToFront() method

What is powerful way to force a form to bring front?

Use SetWindowsPos() api function

UserControl bring Form to front

You can try

Application.OpenForms[0].Activate() // or BringToFront()

But keep in mind, that you should have any opened forms, before you start your main form in Main method:

Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
// do not open any forms here
Application.Run(new MainForm());

If you really need to have some forms opened before main form, then this will go:

Application.OpenForms["MainForm"].Activate()

How to bring all forms to foreground (WindowsMobile/C#)

There really isn't a way. You could implement a way to store forms in a similar way to the first answer, but when you switch you need to do:

"callingform".BringToFront();
"callingform".Show();

That will put all of your forms in front of Explorer.

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