What is the “right” way to bring a Windows Forms Application to the foreground?

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Have you tried Form.Activate?

This code seems to do what you want, by restoring the form to normal size if minimized and then activating it to set the focus:

if (this.WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized)
{
    this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal;
}

this.Activate();

Warning: this is annoying! If it’s just an app for your personal use, as you say, maybe you can live with it. 🙂

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