Foregrounder

Bring a window in your process to the foreground, even if a different process's window is currently in the foreground.

Requirements

• Windows
• A .NET desktop runtime, such as
  • .NET 5 or later
  • .NET Core 3.1 or later
  • .NET Framework 4.5.2 or later

Installation

dotnet add package Foregrounder

Usage

Foregrounder.Foregrounder.BringToForeground(myWindow);

myWindow can be

• a Window from WPF
• a Form from Windows Forms
• an AutomationElement from UI Automation
• a raw HWND window handle pointer

Acknowledgements

• Joseph Cooney for the original article and C# implementation
• Carl "Zodman" Scarlett for the StackOverflow answer that this package is based upon