Question

I will prevent a window from iTunes to be opened.
I googled a lot but can’t find an iTunes library that allows me to control such things, so I think I must get back to basics and close it after it opens, but how?

I think:

• Tick a timer every 500 ms
• Check if the window handle is opened
• Close it

Is that possible?
How can I recognize a window from this application on other computers (I will give away my application)?

Language is C#.Net 2.0.

Answer 1

Yes it’s an option to find the window and close it. However the user will still see it.

You can do the PInvoke method of FindWindow or use the C# ones (prefer those)

using System.Diagnostics;
Process[] processes = Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad");
foreach (Process p in processes)
{
    p.CloseMainWindow();
}

From here

This is only for closing the top application, I dont know if you can find the subwindow with Process.
I know you can with PInvoke, see example here

[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string lpClassName, string lpWindowName);

or

[DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint="FindWindow", SetLastError = true)]
static extern IntPtr FindWindowByCaption(IntPtr ZeroOnly, string lpWindowName);