C#, WPF Getting active window

Asked May 26 '19 at 09:16

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After many searches, I can't find a way to get the active window (on windows desktop) or even all visible windows. All user32 methods have problems :

How can I do ?

asked May 26 '19 at 09:16

Entretoize

you want to get other apps active windows? – Ahmed Mohammed May 26 '19 at 09:23
Take a look on this anwser https://stackoverflow.com/a/22302647/553825 – Ali Bahrami May 26 '19 at 10:49
@ahmedmohamed yes I need the active window even if it is of another app – Entretoize May 26 '19 at 12:15
What do you want to do with the window? Have you looked at UIA? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/ui-automation/ui-automation-overview – Dave M May 26 '19 at 15:23
@AliBahrami the answer uses GetForegroundWindow which returns the topmost window... – Entretoize May 26 '19 at 16:06
@DaveM I just need to get the window title. Sorry I'm a bit new to c# and I don't understand how to use UIA, is it integrated with windows sdk or I need to import a package or something ? – Entretoize May 26 '19 at 16:08
Built into .Net framework, just add references to the client libraries. It’s not the cleanest API, but it will easily do what you need without resorting to PInvoke. – Dave M May 26 '19 at 16:15
There are also tools available for inspecting the UIA tree – Dave M May 26 '19 at 16:17

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