How to set size of window of an external process?

You would need to enumerate the top-level windows for the process and hopefully the window you want will be the only one. I think there are no .Net classes for enumerating windows of other processes, so you would need to use the Windows API. I think you would need to enumerate all top-level windows in the system and select the windows whose process is the same as the one you created.

I am not familiar with the latest versions of Word but I think what you are trying to do is more complicated due to Word's use of a single instance of the applicaton. In other words, if Words is already executing when you open a document, then the process you create using the Process class will pass the document to the existing instance of Word and then exit, so the process will go away very quickly,

So you should use the Word object model or whatever it is called to open the document, not the Process class.

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Sam Hobbs16y ago
You would need to enumerate the top-level windows for the process and hopefully the window you want will be the only one. I think there are no .Net classes for enumerating windows of other processes, so you would need to use the Windows API. I think you would need to enumerate all top-level windows in the system and select the windows whose process is the same as the one you created.

I am not familiar with the latest versions of Word but I think what you are trying to do is more complicated due to Word's use of a single instance of the applicaton. In other words, if Words is already executing when you open a document, then the process you create using the Process class will pass the document to the existing instance of Word and then exit, so the process will go away very quickly,

So you should use the Word object model or whatever it is called to open the document, not the Process class.
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