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Finding the URL being viewed in IE from a PID or hWnd

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Paul Aspinall - 12 Mar 2006 13:54 GMT
Hi
I'm trying to find the URL that is being viewed in an IE window, by using
the PID or the hWnd of the IE window.

Does anyone know how this could be done? or where I should be looking?

Thanks
Chris Taylor - 12 Mar 2006 19:51 GMT
Hi,

This will require interop to the windows API.

Once you have the hwnd of internet explorer you can use the EnumChildWindows
to locate the combobox, for IE 6 the class name is ComboBoxEx32 and the
control id is 0xA205. The caption of the control is the URL in the address
bar.

Hope this helps

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> Hi
> I'm trying to find the URL that is being viewed in an IE window, by using
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>
> Thanks
Mattias Sjögren - 12 Mar 2006 23:15 GMT
>I'm trying to find the URL that is being viewed in an IE window, by using
>the PID or the hWnd of the IE window.
>
>Does anyone know how this could be done? or where I should be looking?

If you're only interested in IE it may be better to use the COM APIs
in Shdocvw.dll. If you Tlbimp it you can write code like this to dump
info on all IE (and Windows Explorer) windows.

foreach (InternetExplorer ie in new ShellWindows())
{
    Console.WriteLine(ie.HWND);
    Console.WriteLine(ie.LocationName);
    Console.WriteLine(ie.LocationURL);
}

Mattias

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