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Capturing data from another windows application?

 
 
Danny Tuppeny
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      26th Sep 2005
Hi All,

I've got an application that does a lot of processing and calculating on my
machine. I've started rewriting it in .NET 2, but it's taking longer than
expected (new features being discovered/invented)!

An immediate requirement is to add logging to disk, and my app is quite a
way off. Is threre any way I can "read" from the forms of other windows apps
with C#?

The data I want to grab and write to disk is already in what looks like a
textbox, so I assume it's there somewhere in memory, even if the textbox
isn't drawn by windows. I don't know what the application is written in
(certainly not .NET) and I don't have the source code. It's running on my
own machine, so if my .NET app launching the older app makes things easier,
that's entirely possible (maybe as a child process, there's more
flexibility?).

Am I clutching at straws, and would this be stupid and unsafe if possible,
or is there a way to do what I want in .NET?

Thanks,

Danny Tuppeny


 
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