Setting a Form's Parent using a Win32 Handle

[Joel]

I have written an add-in for Visual Studio using C#. During a long
operation I create a modeless form using the Show() method of the form. I
would like to set the parent of this form but all I have is a Win32 window
handle. Is there any way to tell the .NET form that it's parent is the
window represented by the Win32 window handle?

Thanks - Joel

 

[Claes Bergefall]

Yes. Override the CreateParams property and specify your handle
in the Parent property of the corresponding structure

/claes

 

[VoxCode LLC]

Thanks for the suggestion but is does not seem to work.

Joel

 

[AlexS]

You need to use native API

[DllImport("user32.dll")]

internal static extern int SetParent(IntPtr hWndChild, IntPtr
hWndNewParent);



As you can see it is sufficient to have window handles to set parent.



HTH

Alex