How To Activate a Full Screen MS-DOS or Console Application

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SUMMARY

A full screen MS-DOS application or a full screen Win32 console application can be activated from a Win32 application by using the Platform SDK's APIs SetForegroundWindow() and ShowWindow().

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Assuming the caption of the MS-DOS application or the Win32 console application is Test.exe, the following sample code activates the minimized MS-DOS or Win32 console application:

   HWND hwndConsole = NULL;
   hwndConsole = FindWindow(NULL, "Test.exe");
   if(NULL != hwndConsole)
   {
      SetForegroundWindow(hwndConsole);
      ShowWindow(hwndConsole, SW_MAXIMIZE);
   }