Get window handle from window class name

c# winapi window-handles findwindow
Einar Egilsson picture Einar Egilsson · May 31, 2010 · Viewed 13.7k times · Source

I'm trying to get a window handle on a child window in my process and the only information I have is the window class name. Are there any win32 functions I can use for that? I'm doing this from C#.

A bit more detail: This is a Visual Studio plugin, written in C#. So my process is visual studio, which has lots of windows. One of them has a window class "VsTipWindow". I don't know the immediate parent window of that window, all I have is the class name. Is there any way for me to get the window handle from just that?

Answer

MusiGenesis picture MusiGenesis · May 31, 2010

FindWindow is the Win32 call you want for this (or FindWindowEx if there's more than one window with that particular class name, and FindWindow isn't returning the one you're looking for).

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