Vista - Windows Forms focus question

I'm playing around with .NET forms and such (no experience with them)
and I'm trying to pop open a dialog box in front of my current app
instead of behind it (this is on XP SP2), From the .Net Class Library
on TechNet it looks like I need to include an IWin32Window object that
references the app I want the window in front of. My code is:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
[Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show([Windows.Forms.IWin32Window]::Handle,"Proceed?","Question",
[Windows.Forms.MessageBoxButtons]::YesNo)

I can do the same basic thing with some vbscript compiled into an exe,
but I'd really like to figure out .Net, and using it with powershell
is an excellent excuse. So what am I missing?

Lawndart

> I'm playing around with .NET forms and such (no experience with them)
> and I'm trying to pop open a dialog box in front of my current app
> instead of behind it (this is on XP SP2), From the .Net Class Library
> on TechNet it looks like I need to include an IWin32Window object that
> references the app I want the window in front of. My code is:

I tried this out too a few months ago, and posted here...

I actually *think* there is an issue with XP here.

See also:
http://community.bartdesmet.net/blog...9/16/4429.aspx

There's definitely an issue with dialog boxes from PowerShell on XP. Its
even mentioned as an issue in Bruce Payette's book
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"Marco Shaw" wrote:

> > I'm playing around with .NET forms and such (no experience with them)
> > and I'm trying to pop open a dialog box in front of my current app
> > instead of behind it (this is on XP SP2), From the .Net Class Library
> > on TechNet it looks like I need to include an IWin32Window object that
> > references the app I want the window in front of. My code is:
>
> I tried this out too a few months ago, and posted here...
>
> I actually *think* there is an issue with XP here.
>
> See also:
> http://community.bartdesmet.net/blog...9/16/4429.aspx
>
>
>

Ah, well, glad it's not just me

This page: http://mow001.blogspot.com/2006/10/p...ction-gui.html
has a handy example of a cheat to make it focus properly.

Lawndart