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Creating TopMost Windows

As you're probably aware, when you click a window it usually comes to the foreground and all other windows appear behind it. At times, you may want a window to stay on top of other windows, regardless of whether it's the current window (that is, it has the focus). An example of this is the Find window in C# and other applications such as Word. Regardless of which window has the focus, the Find form always appears floating over all other windows. Such a window is created by setting the form's TopMost property to true. Not exactly rocket science. However, that's the point; often a simple property change or method call is all it takes to accomplish what may otherwise seem to be a difficult task.