NetUIHWND and DirectUIHWND [closed]

Answer 1

Not sure about the Messenger UI, but you can use the ribbon control in your own apps.

• On WTL: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vista/RibbonUI.aspx
• On MFC: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb983906.aspx

Answer 2

NetUIHWND and DirectUIHWND are the Win32 class types for different GUI toolsets. From Win32 perspective they are a self drawn panel.

So you wouldn't use these classes directly, you would use the other GUI toolsets to build the UI.

Answer 3

Use the Microsoft Active Accessibility API:

There is no need to reverse engineer this thing, you can enumerate this class structure using the Microsoft Active Accessibility API.

Answer 4

Yes, it has been around for a while already. But it gets especially a lots of usage in Windows7. Unfortunately, they keep this one to themselves, it is undocumented. You can try to reverse-engineer it, use a ListView as a guide to what it might do. But your code will almost certainly break in the next version of Windows. Which I think was the point of not documenting it, they need something they don't have to keep backwards compatible to be able to improve the look-and-feel of the operating system.