C# : Prevent child modal form from creating instance on taskbar

Question

I have a parent form. When i click a button, a modal child form appeare within the form and is located at the center of the parent form :

but the problem is in the taskbar, the application have 2 instances :

How do i prevent this second instance or Hide it from the taskbar ? Thanks !

Answer 1

When you instantiate the second form, set the ShowInTaskbar property to False to prevent it from showing up in the Windows task bar.

You don't show the code where you instantiate and display the form, but something like this should work:

var secondForm = new Form2
                     {
                         ShowInTaskbar = false,
                         StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterParent
                     };

secondForm.ShowDialog();