How to get a HWND handle out of a System.Windows.Forms.Form

Question

Given the form ``` System.Windows.Forms::Form Form1; ``` and the window handle ``` HWND hWnd; ``` How can I set hWnd to the Handle property of Form1 that does truly exist as a public property that "Gets the window handle that the control is bound to. (Inherited from Control.)" according to the Microsoft documentation of System.Windows.Forms::Form? In the constructor of my Form Form1, I've tried ``` hWnd = this.Handle; ``` but the compiler complains: error C2228: left of '.Handle' must have class/struct/union type is 'MyNamespace::Form1 ^const ' did you intend to use '->' instead? So I try ``` hWnd = this->Handle; ``` and just ``` hWnd = Handle; // Since I'm in the Form ``` and then the compiler says: error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'System::IntPtr' to 'HWND' No user-defined-conversion operator available that can perform this conversion, or the operator cannot be called

Accepted Answer

I found a solution, and don't care if it's a kludge.

```
hWnd = static_cast<HWND>(Handle.ToPointer());
```

Works.

How to get a HWND handle out of a System.Windows.Forms.Form

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