RE: How to bring the 'CredUIPromptForCredentials dialog' to the foreground

From: Shawn Farkas [MS] (shawnfa_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/26/05

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    This isn't my area of expertese, but you shouldn't be using the Desktop as
    the parent window for a dialog. Raymond expands upon that here:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/02/24/79212.aspx

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    > From: "Declercq Dirk" <dirk.declercq.ddc@telenet.be>
    > Subject: How to bring the 'CredUIPromptForCredentials dialog' to the
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    > Hey,
    >
    > From within my security-dll I am able to display the
    > 'CredUIPromptForCredentials' dialog.
    > Because this dialog is popped up from code within my dll I have set the
    > parent window of this dialog to be the Desktop.
    >
    > I am already able to bring this dialog visible (if there are other
    window's
    > occupying the desktop) by using
    > SetWindowPos( hWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOMOVE )
    in a
    > seperate thread
    > where the 'hWnd' parameter is the window I have found with the
    'EnumWindows'
    > function.
    >
    > What I am not able to do is set this window the active window of the
    system
    > because when I press a key to fill
    > in the UserName the input is going to another application although the
    > title-bar of the 'CredUIPromptForCredentials'-dialog
    > seems to be active (I suspect so because the color is the one of an
    active
    > window).
    >
    > Some idea's ?
    >
    > I have already tried using SetWindowPos( hWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0,
    > SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_SHOWWINDOW )
    >
    >
    >

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