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

Another option in a similar vein to setting the opacity to 0, is to set the size to 0 and set the position to be off the screen. This won't require the AllowsTransparency = True.

Also remember that once you have shown it once you can then hide it and still get the hwnd.