Does C# contain shell programming?

[T i T i]

I want to know does C# supports shell programming or not? in other words ,I want to no. of the already opened windows or applications in the operataing system...So my question is : Is there is a way to do that with c# or only C++? and if so ,HOW? thank you for helping

[Mazdak]

T i T i wrote: want to know does C# supports shell programming or not? It does. Search in C# section shell programming and you wuill find sme articles there. Mazy "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope

[Heath Stewart]

Getting the open windows has nothing to do with the shell - that's a function of the window manager. You can use System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses to get a Process[] array. To determine which running processes are window applications, enumerate the array and check Process.MainWindowHandle to determine if it is IntPtr.Zero (not a window application) or not (a window application).

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[SherKar]

but this code is good to get the process not the applications so if the opened windows ("c:","MyComputer")only one process will appear under the name of Explorer so wt can we do ??

[Heath Stewart]

If you have the option set in Windows Explorer for each window to be opened in a separate process, this will work. If not, you'll have to P/Invoke EnumWindows and create an EnumWindowsProc delegate (not necessarily by name but by signature). There's already been several articles outlining this here on CodeProject, so instead of explaining it just see the highlighted portions of Window Hiding with C#[^].

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