I want my form have the follwing two properties
1 It should be maximized when form is open
2 It does'nt have the clip control(icon on left side of title bar. )

In the forms property page use these setting:

ControlBox = False
WindowState = 2-Maximized

Kenny Alligood

I want to remove the icon on the left hand side of the form
not the buttons for max,min and close the window
Does Setting window sate to Maximize something to do with the border style of form ????????

To remove the icon on the left hand side of a VB form, add the following code to the form load event:

Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.Icon = Nothing
End Sub

This code will replace the small white flag with a standard windows icon.`

Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.Icon = Nothing
End Sub

This code will replace the small white flag with a standard windows icon.`


But I daont want any icon at all
and form to be maximized

right now I've set clip control = false
                   window state = 2- maximized
                   border style = 2 - sizable
these setting make my form maximized but I can see the clip control
Y?????????????????????????

According to MSDN the ClipControl is for this:
Returns or sets a value that determines whether graphics methods in Paint events repaint the entire object or only newly exposed areas. Also determines whether the Microsoft Windows operating environment creates a clipping region that excludes nongraphical controls contained by the object. Read-only at run time.

Therefore setting it to False would do nothing to resolve your issue. The setting that (I believe) are what you need is what I put in my previous post....

ControlBox = False
WindowState = 2-Maximized

That will remove the icon from the left corner along with the Minimize, Maximize, and Close buttons on the right corner. This will also resize your form to Mazimized. Since you lose access to the close buttons you will obviously need to add code functionality to handle that -- either a CommandButton or MenuItem.


Kenny Alligood

then it's better to leave as it is