i want to create a virtual monitor. The way this would work is that the virtual monitor would appear in a window on my desktop. As far as Windows knows it is just anoth
I'd say it's definitely possible, since that's what virtualization tools do for their guest utilities, but I wouldn't be able to tell you how in details. I'd suggest looking at the VirtualBox guest driver code as a starting point: http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Additions/WINNT/Graphics
(This is released under GPL as far as I'm aware.)