[RESOLVED] Companion Bar Window

Hi all,

Apologies in advance. I feel this is a question that must have been asked by many people before.
I have done quite a lot of internet searching to find the solution myself - but can't seem to find the answer
(Perhaps for lack of vocabulary/searchterms in explaining what I want to achieve?)

Basically I want to make a "companion bar" of sorts to interact with the IP phone systems here at work. I've got the API all worked out - so no issues there.

However its trying to make it a "bar" as such which takes a certain strip of screen space along the top, and forces all other "maximised" windows to fall underneath it. Obviously this is more than just a "on top of other windows" property - because effectively this would allow no windows to be behind it at all. I've seen tonnes of similar things - but just can't work out how this is achieved in VB.

As I said - I'm terrible at explaining/searching for this thing - so have included an image which probably best communicates what I'm trying to achieve.

Even if someone could just point me in the right direction - a link or property or something, I'm sure I can work it out.
MUCH THANKS IN ADVANCE :)

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