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How to enumerate - sendmessage all windows in application - from within the app.

What we want to do is send a message to all windows in our .net
application.

They all are based on System.Windows. Forms.Form, and we might have, say
5 of them open in our application at once. How would you either:

A) Enumerate over a collection of all top level windows, which we can
then do what we want like call begininvoke to tell each window that
they might like to close,

or

B) Send a message/call beginInvoke to all windows in our app that
inherit from System.Windows. Forms.Form?

In the old Win32 days, I could call SendMessage() on a window list
returned from some API call. What is the .net equivalent.

This is a desktop application.

Thanks,

--Tom

Mar 8 '06 #1
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