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Is there any way to open a Window to a specific position and size from a shortcut, or from another utility app. This would be handy.

I need this ability for settng up to open applications and documents to a specific location on the screen. I have looked and cannot find this any where.

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Mike Tomlinson

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Mike Treat

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I have VS.NET

Can this be done with VB.NEt

I found this program called AutoSizer that works pretty good

Mike Tomlinson

The following example opens Notepad and then moves it to the bottom right of the screen with a width of 500 and a height of 250:

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

Private Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowPos" _
(ByVal hwnd As Integer, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Integer, _
ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer, _
ByVal cx As Integer, ByVal cy As Integer, _
ByVal wFlags As Integer) As Integer

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim p As Process = Process.Start("notepad.exe")
p.WaitForInputIdle()
Dim w As Integer = 500
Dim h As Integer = 250
SetWindowPos(p.MainWindowHandle.ToInt32, 0, Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea.Width - w, Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea.Height - h, w, h, 0)
End Sub

End Class