Controlling other applications from VB.Net?

phx

I want to send text to another application from my vb app(i want to sent
texts to irc window, or press some buttons on that application). Does anyone
know a article about that , or give me a clue about the keywords to search
the net?

Nov 20 '05 #1

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

* "phx" <hd****@yahoo.com> scripsit:

I want to send text to another application from my vb app(i want to sent
texts to irc window, or press some buttons on that application). Does anyone
know a article about that , or give me a clue about the keywords to search
the net?

You can try to send messages to the application's window. Keywords:
'Process.GetProcesses' to find the process, the process'
'MainWindowHandle' to get a handle to the window, then you can use
p/invoke on 'FindWindowEx' to get a handle to the textbox and use
'SendMessage' to send commands to the window.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

Nov 20 '05 #2

phx

I will check it. thanks.

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* "phx" <hd****@yahoo.com> scripsit:
I want to send text to another application from my vb app(i want to sent texts to irc window, or press some buttons on that application). Does anyone know a article about that , or give me a clue about the keywords to search the net?

You can try to send messages to the application's window. Keywords:
'Process.GetProcesses' to find the process, the process'
'MainWindowHandle' to get a handle to the window, then you can use
p/invoke on 'FindWindowEx' to get a handle to the textbox and use
'SendMessage' to send commands to the window.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

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