Access is denied - when trying to get the url (text) from address bar's handle

Question

I\'m trying to extract the URL from the address bar of IE. (IE 8 on Windows 7) using the following C# code.

        static string GetUrlFromIE()
        {
           


        

Answer 1

GetWindowText() can't retrieve the text of a control in another process, instead you should use SendMessage() with WM_GETTEXTLENGTH / WM_GETTEXT.

Edit; Version agnostic way:

(Add a ref to c:\WINDOWS\system32\shdocvw.dll)

using SHDocVw;
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foreach (InternetExplorer ieInst in new ShellWindowsClass())
   Console.WriteLine(ieInst.LocationURL);