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BUG: Focus Disappears After Minimizing VB Form with Usercontrol

Article ID: 177096

Article Last Modified on 1/8/2003

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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

  1. Start a new Standard EXE project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.
  2. Click Add UserControl on the Project menu.
  3. Close the UserControl designer window.
  4. Add the UserControl to Form1.
  5. From the File menu, chose Make Project1.exe.
  6. Start another application.
  7. Run the exe that you created in step 5.
  8. Minimize the Visual Basic Application.

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

Additional query words: focus active inactive titlebar kbVBp500bug kbVBp600bug kbVBp kbdsd kbDSupport KBCONTROL KBCTRLCREATE

Keywords: kbbug KB177096


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