Cascading windows on the desktop

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Pete Wright - 16 Sep 2003 10:27 GMT

Hi guys,

I have a requirement for my app to cascade all the windows on the desktop.
These aren't MDI children, but any old app running within Windows. I can't
figure out though which API call to use, nor can I find anything in the .NET
framework to help me out with this.

So, anyone got any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Pete

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Pete Wright - 16 Sep 2003 17:18 GMT

Ok, I'll answer my own question.

First, add a reference to the Microsoft Shell Controls Com library to your
project (yeah yeah, com - bleh). This will make a new namespace available to
your code called Shell32, which includes a wonderful class called
ShellClass.

In code, you then do

Shell myShell = new ShellClass();
myShell.CascadeWindows();

simple as that.

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