Active

[watson123]

Hey please help i need to set the active window in vb.net
so please tell me how to do it??

[jmcilhinney]

Please provide a full and clear description. Do you mean a form within your app or a window outside your app?

[sapator]

If you need to set another application's active window u must use API.
Stuff like:
GetWindow
setForegroundWindow

[watson123]

i want window outside my app

If you need to set another application's active window u must use API.
Stuff like:
GetWindow
setForegroundWindow

i found out on google but they are not working they are for vb6
and have many errors in vb.net

[jmcilhinney]

VB6 declarations are often OK as is except that you need to change any Long type to Integer. There may be other changes required to. If you go to PInvoke.net then you can find .NET declarations for many Windows APIs.

[watson123]

Please Can you give me how can i set a window
i have working codes for finding it

Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" _
       Alias "FindWindowA" _
       (ByVal lpClassName As String, _
       ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
    Private Declare Function GetClassName Lib "user32" _
       Alias "GetClassNameA" _
       (ByVal hWnd As Long, _
       ByVal lpClassName As String, _
       ByVal nMaxCount As Long) As Long

    Public Sub GetClassNameFromTitle()
        Dim sInput As String
        Dim hWnd As Long
        Dim lpClassName As String
        Dim nMaxCount As Long
        Dim lresult As Long
        ' pad the return buffer for GetClassName
        nMaxCount = 256
        lpClassName = Space(nMaxCount)
        ' Note: must be an exact match
        sInput = InputBox("Enter the exact window title:")
        ' No validation is done as this is a debug window utility
        hWnd = FindWindow(vbNullString, sInput)
        ' Get the class name of the window, again, no validation
        lresult = GetClassName(hWnd, lpClassName, nMaxCount)
        Debug.Print("Window: " & sInput)
        Debug.Print("Class name: " & VB.Left(lpClassName, lresult))

    End Sub

[watson123]

Anyone???
Please

[sapator]

Did you ready my post?
SetForegroundWindow