Question Create window without forms.

[MikeyJY]

Is it possible to create a window, without using the using forms namespace? And without UWP or WPF, etc.

 

[Skydiver]

Yes. PInvoke.

 

[MikeyJY]

Can you be more specific?

 

[Skydiver]

Call the Win32 API CreateWindowExW() using PInvoke.

Create a window - Win32 apps

Learn how to create a window as the first step in this sample module for your first Windows program.

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CreateWindowExW function (winuser.h) - Win32 apps

Creates an overlapped, pop-up, or child window with an extended window style; otherwise, this function is identical to the CreateWindow function. (Unicode)

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Platform Invoke (P/Invoke) - .NET

Learn how to call native functions via P/Invoke in .NET.

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pinvoke.net: createwindowex (user32)

Like CreateWindow, but creates the window with an extended window style.

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