Hello!

I want to make an application for my network computers. I want to make they ping my server and return a balloon notifying pinging success/failure. This is almost done, but here comes the issue; When the application starts, I have a "pinging..."window. I want to hide this one when pinging attempt finishes, and I want to maintain notification icons on my systray. But the window does not hide with the Me.Hide command, or if I enter the Me.Close command, notification icons also disappear. Can somebody tell me what's wrong?

Here's my code:

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        NotifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(10000)
        If My.Computer.Network.Ping("192.168.0.1", 5000) Then

            NotifyIcon1.Visible = False
            ntfSuccess.Visible = True
            ntfSuccess.ShowBalloonTip(10000)
            Me.Hide()
        Else
            NotifyIcon1.Visible = False
            ntfFailure.Visible = True
            ntfFailure.ShowBalloonTip(10000)
            Me.Hide()
        End If
    End Sub

Thanks in advance!

Edited September 26, 200718 yr by ShinIori319

You can't hide the window during Form_Load using Me.Hide(), try moving all the code to Form_Shown instead. If it's because you never want the form to be shown at all, then try setting the form's visible property to false during design-time.

Thanks! It works now!