Loading a WPF Window without showing it

Question

I create a global hot key to show a window by PInvoking RegisterHotKey(). But to do this I need that window\'s HWND, which doesn\'t exist until the

Answer 1

I had already posted an answer to that question, but I just found a better solution.

If you just need to make sure that the HWND is created, without actually showing the window, you can do this:

    public void InitHwnd()
    {
        var helper = new WindowInteropHelper(this);
        helper.EnsureHandle();
    }

(actually the EnsureHandle method wasn't available when the question was posted, it was introduced in .NET 4.0)