How to - Access another application's Text

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Hello

How can I access another application window's Text? It is ilistview if seen
by spy++.

I know we have to get the windows handle and read the text.

But I cannot seem to find any c# code for that.

Any ideas ? suggestions ? Demos ?

Thank You
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[Mohamoss]

Hi Hemang
if I got what you want correctly , then . For managed code you can use
something like the .net reflector . Check
http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/ . it reverse engineer the PL to either
C# or VB.net . still it is not almost 100% accurate and you still can
confiscate your code so such operations wouldn't work .
hope this helps
Mohamed M .Mahfouz
Developer Support Engineer
ITWorx on behalf of Microsoft EMEA GTSC

[Hemang Shah]

I do not want to reverse engineer the target application.

I want to access some text of the target application when it is running from
my C# Application

Using the API GetWindowText and so on.

I'm looking for a sample code for that.

Thanks

HS
"Mohamoss" <mo************@egdsc.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:Gv*************@TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...

Hi Hemang
if I got what you want correctly , then . For managed code you can use
something like the .net reflector . Check
http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/ . it reverse engineer the PL to either
C# or VB.net . still it is not almost 100% accurate and you still can
confiscate your code so such operations wouldn't work .
hope this helps
Mohamed M .Mahfouz
Developer Support Engineer
ITWorx on behalf of Microsoft EMEA GTSC

[Hemang Shah]

Hello

What I want to do is access the text on another application's form which is
displayed.

Not the source code.a

We do it by using the windows handle & "GetWindowText" I think

But I was looking for some c# example on that.

thanks

"Mohamoss" <mo************@egdsc.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:Gv*************@TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...

Hi Hemang
if I got what you want correctly , then . For managed code you can use
something like the .net reflector . Check
http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/ . it reverse engineer the PL to either
C# or VB.net . still it is not almost 100% accurate and you still can
confiscate your code so such operations wouldn't work .
hope this helps
Mohamed M .Mahfouz
Developer Support Engineer
ITWorx on behalf of Microsoft EMEA GTSC

[Philip Hristov]

Hemang,

To get the handle of a given window use FindWindow or FindWindowEx then
get the text with GetWindowText.

More info about these funcs you can find here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...findwindow.asp

Regards,

Philip Hristov.

[Hemang Shah]

Any c# sample application anywhere?

Can I get even child windows ? which has an ilist control?
Thanks

"Philip Hristov" <ph********@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hemang,

To get the handle of a given window use FindWindow or FindWindowEx then
get the text with GetWindowText.

More info about these funcs you can find here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...findwindow.asp

Regards,

Philip Hristov.