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Reputation: 290

Detecting active virtual desktop on Windows 10 - Task View - virtual desktop switcher

Windows 10 provide for users switching between virtual desktops using Task View.

For developing purpose, I need to:

detect which virtual desktop is active
get virtual desktop parameters (handle, class, position, styles)
get list of applications from this virtual desktop
move application from one virtual desktop to another

How can I do that? Is there any API?
Thank you for your help!

Upvotes: 8

Views: 4512

Answers (1)

blade

Reputation: 12894

There is an interface that should provide most of the functionality you need: IVirtualDesktopManager interface

It has the following methods:

GetWindowDesktopId
IsWindowOnCurrentVirtualDesktop
MoveWindowToDesktop

In case that wasn't enough, there are even more unofficial APIs documented on this Russian website http://www.cyberforum.ru/blogs/105416/blog3671.html

Edit: here's a C# wrapper library for all the COM interfaces: https://github.com/Grabacr07/VirtualDesktop

Upvotes: 5

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