Making a window visible through API

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Ed White - 12 May 2006 00:34 GMT

In the API for Visual Basic (I'm using v. 2005), if I have a handle (HWND) to
a window that is not visible (e.g. from Excel.Visible=False), and I want to
make that window visible, is there an API command available to do this?

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 12 May 2006 04:00 GMT

Hi Ed,

Thank your for posting!

You can use P/Invoke to call a win32 api ShowWindow to show or hide a
window.

Here's a detailed how to article on this:
http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32/ShowWindow.html

Regards,

Walter Wang
Microsoft Online Community Support

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