“Bring to front” for Windows XP command shell

Question

Is there a command I can put into a Windows XP .bat file to bring the command shell to the front?

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and I had to develop a simple C# console application that brings to front a Window. The windows is selected using the window title pass as argument.

using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 using  System.Runtime.InteropServices; 

 namespace ConsoleApplication1
 {
    class Program
    {

        [DllImport("USER32.DLL", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
        public static extern IntPtr FindWindow(String lpClassName, String lpWindowName);

        [DllImport("USER32.DLL")]
        public static extern bool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hWnd);
        [DllImport("User32.dll")]
        private static extern bool IsIconic(IntPtr handle);
        [DllImport("User32.dll")]
        private static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr handle, int nCmdShow);
        const int SW_RESTORE = 9;
        public static void bringToFront(string title)
        {
            // Get a handle to the Calculator application.
            IntPtr handle = FindWindow(null, title);

            // Verify that Calculator is a running process.
            if (handle == IntPtr.Zero)
            {
                return;
            }
            if (IsIconic(handle))
            {
                ShowWindow(handle, SW_RESTORE);
            }

            Console.WriteLine("Founded ");
            SetForegroundWindow(handle);

        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            if (args.Length > 0)
                bringToFront(args[0]);
            else
                Console.WriteLine("specify program window title");

        }
    }
}

the code of my batch script is then something similar to

tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq program.exe" | find "program.exe" if errorlevel 1 (program.exe) else (BringToFront.exe "Program Window Title")