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Host a process window inside your applications window
The following snippet will allow you to host the window of any application inside your own application. This isn’t a recommended practice but it’s a fun method that might spawn some interesting ideas.
In order to get this working we will need to pinvoke two Win32 functions, SetParent and SetWindowPos.
Place the following lines in your class
1 2 3 4 | [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)] private static extern IntPtr SetParent(IntPtr hWndChild, IntPtr hWndNewParent); [DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "SetWindowPos")] public static extern IntPtr SetWindowPos(IntPtr hWnd, int hWndInsertAfter, int x, int Y, int cx, int cy, int wFlags); |
