http://www.csharp411.com/convert-handle-to-form-and-vice-versa/ C# Development Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:14:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.csharp411.com/convert-handle-to-form-and-vice-versa/#comment-645 Jonno Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:57:20 +0000 http://www.csharp411.com/convert-handle-to-form-and-vice-versa/#comment-645 While it's perfectly valid to use Form.Handle to get the IntPtr window handle, it's probably not good to include the Form form = new Form(); in the previous line without mentioning the inner workings of creating a handle - it's far from trivial how that occurs and forcing a handle to be created immediately after calling the Form c'tor is far from best practice. The property Control.IsHandleCreated wouldn't exist if it was trivial. Normally, a reference to a Control.Handle shouldn't be kept in an application but rather used for "immediate consumption" i.e. use it to find out if your window is the active window. While it’s perfectly valid to use Form.Handle to get the IntPtr window handle, it’s probably not good to include the
Form form = new Form();
in the previous line without mentioning the inner workings of creating a handle – it’s far from trivial how that occurs and forcing a handle to be created immediately after calling the Form c’tor is far from best practice. The property Control.IsHandleCreated wouldn’t exist if it was trivial.
Normally, a reference to a Control.Handle shouldn’t be kept in an application but rather used for “immediate consumption” i.e. use it to find out if your window is the active window.

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