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How to automate another application?

I have an application I want to automate. I don't believe it has COM
automation (how do I tell?)

Is there a .NET counterpart to COM automation? If so, how would I determine
if this application supports it?

The only way I can think to automate it is to enumerate all the windows on
the system in a combo box, have the user select one and then send
WM_LDOUBLECLICK and WM_KEYDOWN via pinvoking sendMessage or PostMessage
(which one?) to the application. Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks,
Siegfried
Mar 13 '08 #1
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