C# How to determine if hwnd is in tray icons

Question

I am trying to get the hwnd of the current tray icons. what I did is getting the hWnd of system trat window by using this code:

[DllImport(\"user32.dll\", SetLas         


        

Answer 1

I checked that if window is opened on desktop then it has styles:

WS_VISIBLE=true
WS_MINIMIZE=false

if window is in taskbar:

WS_VISIBLE=true
WS_MINIMIZE=true

if window is in system tray:

WS_VISIBLE=false
WS_MINIMIZE=true

So you can play with styles to determine if window is in tray:

public IsWindowFromTray(hWnd)
{    
    bool isMinimized = Win32Natives.IsIconic(hWnd);
    bool isVisible = Win32Natives.IsWindowVisible(hWnd);

    return isMinimized && !isVisible;
}

For the majority of apps it works.

PS: I used pinvoke

[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern bool IsIconic(IntPtr hWnd);

[DllImport("user32.dll")]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
public static extern bool IsWindowVisible(IntPtr hWnd);