Question

WPF doesn’t provide the ability to have a window that allows resize but doesn’t have maximize or minimize buttons. I’d like to able to make such a window so I can have resizable dialog boxes.

I’m aware the solution will mean using pinvoke but I’m not sure what to call and how. A search of pinvoke.net didn’t turn up any thing that jumped out at me as what I needed, mainly I’m sure because Windows Forms does provide the CanMinimize and CanMaximize properties on its windows.

Could someone point me towards or provide code (C# preferred) on how to do this?

Answer 1

I’ve stolen some code I found on the MSDN forums and made an extension method on the Window class, like this:

internal static class WindowExtensions {     // from winuser.h     private const int GWL_STYLE      = -16,                       WS_MAXIMIZEBOX = 0x10000,                       WS_MINIMIZEBOX = 0x20000;      [DllImport("user32.dll")]     extern private static int GetWindowLong(IntPtr hwnd, int index);      [DllImport("user32.dll")]     extern private static int SetWindowLong(IntPtr hwnd, int index, int value);      internal static void HideMinimizeAndMaximizeButtons(this Window window)     {         IntPtr hwnd = new System.Windows.Interop.WindowInteropHelper(window).Handle;         var currentStyle = GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE);          SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE, (currentStyle & ~WS_MAXIMIZEBOX & ~WS_MINIMIZEBOX));     } } 

The only other thing to remember is that for some reason this doesn’t work from a window’s constructor. I got around that by chucking this into the constructor:

this.SourceInitialized += (x, y) => {     this.HideMinimizeAndMaximizeButtons(); };