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I want to access the properties of a child form of an application from
another application.
Properties means I want to perform some action on the visibility of
the child form.

I have the class name of the main form and its child form.
I have the handle of both the parent and child form(using FindWindow).

Plz help me out.

Jun 15 '07 #1
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On Jun 15, 12:36 am, Gurur <gur...@rediffm ail.comwrote:
I want to access the properties of a child form of an application from
another application.
Properties means I want to perform some action on the visibility of
the child form.

I have the class name of the main form and its child form.
I have the handle of both the parent and child form(using FindWindow).

Plz help me out.
Well, if you have the handle of the child form, you should be able to
send messages to it using the SendMessage API function.

Check out pinvoke.net for the appropriate signature.

Chris

Jun 15 '07 #2

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