Tag Archives: API

Book Errata Page: The C# Helper Top 100

Posted on September 4, 2017 by RodStephens

This is the errata page for my book The C# Helper Top 100, The 100 most popular posts at csharphelper.com. If you find mistakes, please post them here in the Leave a Reply box at the bottom of the page. … Continue reading →

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Book Discussion Page: The C# Helper Top 100

Posted on September 4, 2017 by RodStephens

This is a discussion page for my book The C# Helper Top 100, The 100 most popular posts at csharphelper.com. Please post questions, thoughts, and suggestions here in the “Leave a Reply” box at the bottom of the page. I … Continue reading →

Table of Contents: The C# Helper Top 100

Posted on September 4, 2017 by RodStephens

This is a brief summary of the book’s table of contents. Introduction Part I. Serialization 1. Read a CSV File into an Array (1) 2. Use JSON to Serialize and Deserialize Objects (49) Part II. Graphing 3. Draw a Graph … Continue reading →

New Book: The C# Helper Top 100

Posted on September 4, 2017 by RodStephens

I’m happy to announce my latest book, The C# Helper Top 100, The 100 most popular posts at csharphelper.com. It describes the 100 most popular posts on the C# Helper web site. This is my 32nd book and my second … Continue reading →

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Randomly change the desktop picture in C#

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Rod Stephens

The example Set the Windows desktop picture in C# shows how to display an image on the desktop. This example periodically changes the desktop picture to a randomly selected image file picked from a directory. Note that recent versions of … Continue reading →

Posted in API, graphics, image processing, interoperability, system | Tagged API, C#, C# programming, desktop, desktop image, desktop picture, example, example program, graphics, image processing, interoperability, SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE, SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE, SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, system, Windows Forms programming | Leave a comment

Set the Windows desktop picture in C#

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Rod Stephens

This example sets the Windows desktop picture much as you can manually in Windows 10. (I can’t guarantee that it will work without any changes in other versions of Windows.) Exactly how you set the desktop picture manually depends on … Continue reading →

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Move a window with a title that matches a pattern in C#

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Rod Stephens

The example Set another application’s size and position in C# uses the FindWindow API function to find a window with a given title. Unfortunately FindWindow only finds the window if the title is an exact match. If you only know … Continue reading →

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Tile desktop windows in rows and columns in C#

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Rod Stephens

The example List desktop windows in C# shows how to list the currently running desktop windows. This example uses that technique to fill a ListBox with the titles of those desktop windows. (See the previous example to see how that … Continue reading →

Posted in API, miscellany, system | Tagged API, arrange desktop windows, arrange windows, C#, C# programming, example, example program, file desktop windows, miscellany, system, tile windows, Windows Forms programming | Leave a comment

Set another application’s size and position in C#

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Rod Stephens

When I write books, there is usually a maximum size that a screen shot can be. I wrote this program to make it easy to set an example program to exactly that size. This program uses the FindWindow API function … Continue reading →

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Find a target window and minimize, maximize, or restore it in C#

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Rod Stephens

This is the first in a series of posts that allow one application to manipulate a target window in another application. Note that this isn’t something that Microsoft really wants you to do. In general one application should not fiddle … Continue reading →