https://github.com/aldaviva/foregrounder
Bring a window in your process to the foreground, even if a different process's window is currently in the foreground.
https://github.com/aldaviva/foregrounder
foreground
Last synced: 5 months ago
JSON representation
Bring a window in your process to the foreground, even if a different process's window is currently in the foreground.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/aldaviva/foregrounder
- Owner: Aldaviva
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2022-10-24T07:55:36.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-10-24T08:11:36.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-03T05:42:26.728Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: foreground
- Language: C#
- Homepage: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Foregrounder/
- Size: 10.7 KB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: Readme.md
- License: License.txt
Awesome Lists containing this project
README
Foregrounder
===
[](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Foregrounder/)
*Bring a window in your process to the foreground, even if a different process's window is currently in the foreground.*
## Requirements
- Windows
- A .NET desktop runtime, such as
- .NET 5 or later
- .NET Core 3.1 or later
- .NET Framework 4.5.2 or later
## Installation
```ps1
dotnet add package Foregrounder
```
## Usage
```cs
Foregrounder.Foregrounder.BringToForeground(myWindow);
```
`myWindow` can be
- a `Window` from WPF
- a `Form` from Windows Forms
- an `AutomationElement` from [UI Automation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/entry-uiauto-win32)
- a raw `HWND` window handle pointer
## Acknowledgements
- [Joseph Cooney](https://jcooney.net) for the [original article and C# implementation](https://learnwpf.com/post/2011/08/03/Adding-a-system-wide-keyboard-hook-to-your-WPF-Application.aspx)
- [Carl "Zodman" Scarlett](https://www.redperegrine.net) for the [StackOverflow answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/11552906/979493) that this package is based upon