Drawing form directly to desktop wallpaper

[Gabfine]

Hi,

I was wondering how could I make a vb.net or C# form to be drawn on the desktop wallpaper? I would like to make a custom application on my desktop which would stay under my icons. Anyone know how to make this?

Basicly I know that I should interupt the drawining mechanism of WinApi and do my own drawing between drawing the wallpaper and the desktop icons. Problems is that I dont have any idea how to code this

 

[ThePentiumGuy]

This sounds really hard....

Look into Desktop Items... for example go to http://www.google.com/ right click the word Google and hit Set as Desktop Item, see how it goes to your background like that? Well, I know that you can do the same with Flash (set as desktop item), so maybe you could go that route .

-The Pentium Guy

 

[Gabfine]

Using flash was already one solution that I tried but it has some issues. For example it hooks up with your right click context menu and that how renders that possibility useless

Any other ideas?

 

[sgt_pinky]

Assuming you are using XP, I think the easiest way to do would be to create a web page, using ASP.NET, host it on your computer, and then set the URL as an active desktop.

Is this an option? AFAIK this cant be done with just VB.NET or C#.