Fading forms into and out of sight

Hi guys

I've been working on the 'bells and whistles' of my project, and im trying to get my main form to fade into and out of sight, on a click on the icon which sits in the system tray.

I've set a timer (FaderTimer) to tick ever 100 miliseconds.

The code is as follows:
Private Sub NotifyIcon1_MouseDown(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon1.MouseDown
FaderTimer.Enabled = True
End Sub

Private Sub FaderTimer_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FaderTimer.Tick
If Me.Opacity >= 1 Then
Do Until Me.Opacity = 0
Me.Opacity = Me.Opacity - 0.1
Loop
Else
Do Until Me.Opacity = 1
Me.Opacity = Me.Opacity + 0.1
Loop
End If
FaderTimer.Enabled = False
End Sub

You'd think it would work. However it actually does nothing.
The form initially starts minimised, and no matter how much you click on the system icon, nothing happens.

I've played and tweaked and done all sorts of messing around - i even managed to get the error message to fade in and out!! (just dont ask how!), but cant it to work.

I presume that since the form starts minimised, I need to unminimise it. However the only way I know to do that would be to use Me.Show() -but surely that would bypass the fader completely?

Any ideas?

Cheers guys!

try change it to


did not test the code, straight typed here.