how can i deactivate forms in background?

You can set the Enabled() property for all the backgrounds forms to False.

What version VB.Net are you working with?

And are you working with MDI forms, or stand-alone forms?

Hi,

You can use the Form.Deactivate event to solve your problem.

Regards,
kulkarnivishwajit

hi Idle_Mind , i am working with stand alone forms , vb.net 2003, can u give me code examples?
kulkarnivishwajit, sorry could not find deactivate method

Hi,

Have you tried this?

A page with three <form> tags marked runat="server" is allowed, but only one form's Visible property can be set to true. By playing with the Visible property of the HtmlForm class, you can change the active server form during the page's lifetime.

Regards,
kulkarnivishwajit

i need it in vb.net

kulkarnivishwajit,

runat=server means you're running a web app... I believe the poster is writing a Windows Forms application.

Unfortunately VB.Net 2003 does not have a Forms collection like VB.Net 2005 (or the old VB6).

So you have to manually track all the open forms yourself in a collection (like the ArrayList) that you can iterate over to disable all the forms.

This will require you to either update the collection whenever a form is opened/closed or make them all Inherit from a base form that does this for you.

If you have a limited set of forms that will only be open one at a time then you can make global variables and then hard code in disabling/enabling them.

At any rate, it would require much change to your application.  Is this still something you want to do?

hi Idle_Mind ,

can i get the code for wt you are saying?

Idle_Mind.. i am waiting

Have you actually tried my suggestion - calling your login form with ShowDialog?

Roger