bringing Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE) to foreground

From: Rich (Rich_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 09:24:01 -0800

Hopefully a trivial question -
I have a C# PocketPC 2003 Windows Forms application running under ARMv4.
I want to have the application put itself in the background and bring PIE to
the foreground. PIE is already loading, and can be seen in "Running Programs".

I tried the famous code example where I substituted out "HHTaskBar" for PIE

static public void showTaskBar ()
{
int h = FindWindow ("HHTaskBar", "");
ShowWindow (h, SW_SHOW);
}

[DllImport("coredll.dll")]
public static extern int FindWindow (string lpClassName, string
lpWindowName);
private const int SW_HIDE = 0x0000;
private const int SW_SHOW = 0x0001;

[DllImport("coredll.dll")]
public static extern int ShowWindow (int hwnd, int nTaskShow);

[DllImport("coredll.dll")]
public static extern int MoveWindow (IntPtr hwnd, int X, int Y, int
nWidth, int nHeight, bool bRepaint);
}

My code for show is -
  static public void showPIE ()
    {
      int h = FindWindow ("IEFrame", "");
      // int h = FindWindow ("iexplore", "");
      // int h = FindWindow ("Internet Explorer", "");
      ShowWindow (h, SW_SHOW);
    }

However, PIE is not brought to the foreground.

As the commented lines in "showPIE" hint, I tried various names for PIE -
  "Internet Explorer" appears in the list of "Running Programs",
  "iexplore.exe" is the name of the executable in the PocketPC Windows
directory,
  and I saw a web posting that hinted that "IEFrame" might work.

In any of the three cases, the integer h in "showPIE" is bound to "0".

What do I need to change?

Also - No offence intended, but I have a mild preference *not* to have to
use a 3rd-party library such as opennetcf.org

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