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've never tried to do what you are doing, but if you need to show the Window to get the HWND, but don't want to show it, set the Window Opacity to 0. This will also prevent any hit testing from occurring. Then you could have a public method on the Window to change the Opacity to 100 when you want to make it visible.