How to get Text of a TextBox in another program?

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Hi,I want to get text of a textbox in another program.Is this possible?
can you help me please?

Posted 13-Sep-12 4:47am

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[no name] 13-Sep-12 10:54am

Yes it's possbile. Use P/Invoke to find the window and get the window text.

Andrei Straut 13-Sep-12 11:17am

Done. BTW, that API was my introduction to .NET :). I instantly fell in love with it, and still use it now and then for small hacks at home

Andrei Straut 13-Sep-12 11:14am

Sorry, I replied to Wes' comment. Deleted it and moved here

As well as Wes' solution, you can try taking a look at the MS UI Automation Framework (.NET API). Assuming the other program wasn't written in Java (I've found that most of those don't expose their UI Automation IDs and properties), you'll actually get a .NET API allowing you to automate really large parts of the other application

MSDN Link[^]

[no name] 13-Sep-12 11:15am

*I* think you should post this as an actual solution. :-)

Andrei Straut 13-Sep-12 11:17am

Done. BTW, that API was my introduction to .NET :). I instantly fell in love with it, and still use it now and then for small hacks at home

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**Andrei Straut** · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-13T05:16:00

As well as Wes' comment (should also count as a solution), you can try taking a look at the MS UI Automation Framework (.NET API). Assuming the other program wasn't written in Java (I've found that most of those don't expose their UI Automation IDs and properties), you'll actually get a .NET API allowing you to automate really large parts of the other application

MSDN Link[^]