How do I suppress the default animation that occurs when I hide or show a window?

Raymond ChenOctober 3, 2012Oct 3, 201210/3/12

A customer wanted to know how they can disable the default fade-in/fade-out animation that occurs when a window is hidden or shown. "I don't want to use WS_EX_TOOL­WINDOW because that causes my window to disappear from the taskbar. I tried Dwm­Enable­Composition but that affects the entire desktop and is too jarring. We want to ...