"William Sullivan" <WilliamSulli***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:32CDACA1-A316-4FE6-9048-818BD26A0245@microsoft.com...
>I need to scrape text off of a form.  I can find tons of info on web page
> scraping, but barely anything about scraping off of winforms.  Is there a
> tutorial out there about scraping forms via the windows API?

"Gabriel Magaña" wrote:

> Hopefully you get an answer from someone that knows this better, but in
> essence you have to fund the handle of the main window, then get the list of
> child controls, then look at each one, make sure it has the info you want,
> and get the info.  The devil is in the details of course, specially since
> this is all C-based code, you probably would be better off writing a C/C++
> routine in a dll to do this and then calling your routine from C#, rather
> than making all those calls with C#, you will spend a lot of time worrying
> whether or not you are calling the API correctly in addition to what you are
> trying to accomplish.
>
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> "William Sullivan" <WilliamSulli***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:32CDACA1-A316-4FE6-9048-818BD26A0245@microsoft.com...
> >I need to scrape text off of a form.  I can find tons of info on web page
> > scraping, but barely anything about scraping off of winforms.  Is there a
> > tutorial out there about scraping forms via the windows API?
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