Get Active Window of .net application
.net, c#, windows
Solution
If I understand the question correctly, you can use the Win32 API GetActiveWindow for this. This should work in both Forms and WPF apps.
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr GetActiveWindow();
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern int SendMessage(int hWnd, IntPtr msg, int wParam, int lParam);
public const int WM_SYSCOMMAND = 0x0112;
public const int SC_CLOSE = 0xF060;
// close the active window using API
private void FindAndCloseActiveWindow()
{
IntPtr handle=GetActiveWindow();
SendMessage(handle, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_CLOSE, 0);
}
Problem
I have an application named ProLaunch.exe. I want to get the active window in it and close it if the user is not performing any operation for the speicified period. A timer in the application will be used for this purpose. How can I get the active window and close it?