VS 2010 Retrieve Currently Active Application Window From Another Application Just Starting Up
May 26, 2011
I am in need of a small application, that will allways be topmost and will send keystrokes to the last active application (typically notepad or an explorer window). My problem is retrieving the current active form (or application), when my application is started up. Every search seems to return old and rather complex solutions using Win32 library functions, but I was kinda hoping, that .Net allowed for a neater and more simple solution.I need a code example or link on how to retrieve the currently active application window from another application just starting up.
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Apr 13, 2009
I've tried everything to set my window as active after I've been working on another external App... I have my system on auto and need to send some keystrokes to the program using sendkeys, so I need that app active. I've tried almost everything I can think of, bringtofront, setfocus, windowstate, setactivewindow, setforegroundwindow (For the last 2, hwnd doesnt work - I'm using VB 2008 Express) but none of them seem to be working.
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Apr 2, 2010
I have a standard Visual Studio 2008 VB.Net WinForm application, running on Vista Business. One of the forms has a timer that passes Me.Handle to FlashWindowEx. This works as intended as long as none of the windows that belong to this application are the Foreground window. If this program is running and another application's window is the Foreground window, then it flashes as intended. If, however, any of this application's windows are the Foreground window, then it doesn't flash.
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Nov 4, 2010
I have recently created an application where a lot of data is loaded into objects when the application starts up, and other data as it is required. For example if the user requests the catalogue page then it will load all the top level category data into objects of type Category. This will then stay there to be used by other users (who will therefore not have to load this data into objects) and can be altered by admin if they happen to login during the same application instance. I know this is not the most efficient solution, as pointed out below, but it works and the page load, at the moment, is not too long. It is very quick if most of the required data is already loaded into objects. It is also tailored to the business' needs - unlike other techniques such as Linq-to-SQL.
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May 2, 2012
Excuse me for posting this, but I have searched both Google along with this forum before asking this question, maybe I'm not using the right keywords but I apologize if it's easy to find.I would like to know how one could close a third-party window (application) if a specified string was found in the window title.
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Jan 6, 2012
So i have made this program which im done with. All code has been written and it is working as it should. I do however have one bug that is pretty wierd.
Sometimes the main window just dissapears ! And i cant get it to show it self again.. Rebooting my computer does not help.. And then sometimes it just randomly shows it self again, but only between runs.
The only thing that i can come up with that could cause this, is the part of code i have that saves the position of the window to application settings and reloads them upon run. So that you can move the window around your screen (in this case dual monitors) and then close it, and the next time you start the application it shows where you closed it the last time. This must screw up somehow.
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Dec 22, 2011
modify console application below to window form application for me.I've tried by myself for million times, but i couldn't console application.rar?
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Feb 17, 2012
I'm a noobie coming from VBA. i thought i'd try my hand in VB (because this stuff is fun). I'm trying to make the main window for an application. i've created 2 forms so far. one entitled "Main" and the other "Form1". I would like for "Main" to be the main window of the application.
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Mar 27, 2011
i want to use window form application to write this game?
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Feb 15, 2012
What is the difference between window form application and WPF application?Also i want to know about WPF application.
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Dec 25, 2011
I need to run an external JAR file (which is minecraft) within the window (form) of a VB.NET application, so like having the program in the center and additional text I like around it.
Is this possible, and if so, how?
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Feb 17, 2010
Basically I've written two Apps (A and B) and all I want to do is put a link on the menu of App A which when clicked will fire-up App B.
Normally what I'd do is something along the lines of...
Shell("C:PathAppName.exe")
However, both of my apps are installed on the target machines via a Setup-Kit generated by the Publish Wizard in VB.NET. As far as I know, after you've run the Setup you don't get an EXE file for the actual application - you just get an 'Application Reference' on the Start Menu and/or Desktop.
My problem is that I don't really understand what the Application Reference is and how my application is actually deployed onto the target machine after setup has finished...
Given that I don't seem to have an EXE file after running Setup, I need another way of telling App A to fire App B, because I'm guessing I can't use my Shell command anymore?
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Oct 20, 2010
Unhandled exception has occured in you application. if you click continue, the application will ignore this error attempt to continue. if you click Quit, the application will close immediately Access to path "C:Program FilesRipplEsoftwareMy Product[code]...
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Aug 17, 2009
I have this application to send sms but the reason is that when i start to click on the send button, it does not send. but when I start the application again to send sms by clicking on the send button, it is sending. when i send again using a different number, it cannot send.
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Feb 6, 2012
How would I go about setting an active window? I've researched and I can use "SetForeGroundWindow". I have tried, but I still can't get it to work.
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Feb 10, 2012
I have two windows applications in the same solution, in different projects. How do I start one from the other? Is it a matter of supplying the expected build path .exe to somewhere, or is there an alternative?
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Jun 26, 2008
I've made a windows service for the purpose of creating backup's of certain files and directories automatically each day. The service is installed as automatic (so it starts after win startup) and i have an application which monitors the service through a system tray icon (so right-click on it you can start/stop/pause the service, change settings, etc).
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Dec 16, 2010
I have created a setup project that after the installation, starts the app that is being installed. To do that I have added an Installer class to the app I want to get started and I am using it's commited event to start the app (Process.Start("...myapp.exe").
While this works fine on XP, on Windows Vista the application gets started as a "System" user which makes some parts of the app missbehave i.e. retreiving special folders of the user etc...
This is the question: way to start myapp as the logged in user? Mind you I will not have the credentials of the users.
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Jan 16, 2012
Is it possible to have VB.NET take a screenshot of a specific area in a program?
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Dec 9, 2009
I have an application that starts one of two external CAD applications depending upon the extension of a file in a ListView. I have been able to start up the application to view the file selected without a problem. I also have a seperate print click event for printing the file that opens the viewer application in the background and prints the file. This works perfectly for one of the CAD viewers but when I select a file that requires the other viewer application to print I get a Win32 exception and an error message stating that the file is not associated with any application and it cannot be opened. This of course is rediculous as it opens fine in the "View File" click event that opens the viewer to check the drawing.
One rather strange observation is that the CAD viewer that does print the associated file will launch the other CAD viewer application (that is associated with the other file extensions) when the "View" click event is handled even though I had not incuded the code to execute the process to start the viewer for that type of file. I realize this rather convoluted and may lie in the ProcessStartInfo arguments that I pass to the application.
Here's a code snippet:
Private Sub PrintFinGoods_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles PrintFinGoods.Click
Dim message As String = "No application is associated with file"
Dim source_exception As New Exception
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Sep 3, 2010
I am working on a Windows Service application in VB.net 2008. The main objective of the application is to monitor starting and stopping of applications listed in a file. I build the service as system level by using
mManagementStartWatcher = New ManagementEventWatcher("Select * From Win32_ProcessStartTrace")
AddHandler mManagementStartWatcher.EventArrived, AddressOf
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Nov 17, 2009
Attach and detach sql 2005 database
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Jun 4, 2009
I have created an application where from the starting class a modless dialog box is called. Once the dialog box is called then the program will close instead of waiting on the dialog box to call the appropriate functions.
A couple of notes: This was originally written in VB 2005, and I was successful by manipulating the automatically generated code for the starting and clean up for the class. I cannot find this section of code in my VB 2008 project.
I cannot start the program from inside the dialog box, since there are multiple dialog boxes and which one starts depends on what is currently running on the computer.
The program will run with a modal dialog box, but it does not function properly, so I must use modless.
Please help me to prevent the application from closing when it reaches the end of the code in the main subroutine. I want to have a function to explicitly close the application.
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Mar 29, 2011
Is there a way to modify contents of app.config file at runtime after starting application?
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Jan 16, 2012
I am not able to find the Exclude Command in VB 2010 Express. I have no idea which version of Visual Studio it is working with. I've got one 217MB VB 2010 Express file and many 2008 VB Express files with one of them measuring 31 MB. There many other SQL files and .Net Files.
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Nov 8, 2011
I'm working on a web application called AssetCenter. I have 2 projects, one of them is the application (ACWEBNET) and the other is the web service (IMACWEBSVCS) that contains service related information.
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Nov 30, 2010
I would like to know how one could close a third-party window (application) if a specified string was found in the window title.
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Dec 12, 2011
If you have ever noticed in the Task Manager, when you right-click on the running task, you have many options which include 'Minimize' and 'Maximize'. Is there anyway to do achieve this in vb?
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Nov 25, 2009
I have one project and in this project I want to save picture to application path and save the path to database as string and retrieve the image from the application path.Can u give me some idea about it..i am using vb.net as frontend and ms access database
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Apr 26, 2010
How I can run handler from one application to another, for example:
In application one I have form1 and button.
In application two I have also form1 and button.
Now how I can run handler for button on form1 in first application from application two?
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