switch between external application

[Bart van der Heijden]

Hi,

I am creating a sort of desktop application. My problem is that word and
excel (and other external applications) are not responding to the
SetFocus method (or setforegroundwindow or bringwindowtotop or other
methods from user32.dll). Is there a posibility to do this handy in c#
or do i need to call a certain sequence of methods to give an
application the focus?

Best regards,

Bart

 

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\)]

Bart ,

There is no managed solution of doing this. You need to use PInvoke and
Windows API.

Both methods that you mentioned should do the truck for word and excel. I
guess you pass a wrong HWND