Hide the Main Form in a Delphi 2009 Application

Question

The following code works fine in Delphi 7. However, in Delphi 2009 the form does remain hidden but the button on the taskbar is now appearing.

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Answer 1

Turns out the reason we were seeing the Application window on the taskbar was a simple setting similar to stukelly's answer but not quite.

To get the main form to appear on the task bar and hide the application menu you apply:

Application.MainFormOnTaskbar := True;
Application.ShowMainForm := False;

No code behind the form create or anything required.