Maximized screen ignores taskbar

Question

I have a form I set to Maximized, but for some reason it\'s ignoring the taskbar and maximizing to the entire screen. Is that typical? Is there a workaround?

Answer 1

One thing I left out of the description--I'd turned off the maximize button. When I tested turning that property back on, the task bar showed up again. Apparently it assumes if you don't want a maximize button you are creating a kiosk-style application where you don't want your users to see anything but the application screen. Not exactly what I'd expect, but works I guess.

Answer 2

What I did is the following:

• Set MaximizeBox property to true
• Set WindowState to Maximized

• In constructor of the form, wrote the following:

  this.Bounds = Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea;