How to get Icon of Current Active Window in C Sharp?

Question

As we can get the title of active window in c sharp using method ActiveWindowTitle(). Now I need to get The icon of above same window. how can I do that?

Have you tried [WM_GETICON](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winmsg/wm-geticon)? — Steeeve, Sep 17 '21 at 20:05
Please provide enough code so others can better understand or reproduce the problem. — Community, Sep 23 '21 at 11:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 16 '21 at 10:53

If you find a foreground window

GetForegroundWindow(

you can find out its process ID

GetWindowThreadProcessId(

and for that process, the file path

process.MainModule;

then just use the function

Icon ico = Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon (executablPath);

See for example: this

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '21 at 02:18

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Maybe you can use this. icon.

answered Sep 17 '21 at 02:18

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How to get Icon of Current Active Window in C Sharp?

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