Office Add-in: Can Excel worksheet be parent of a Windows Form? 1

[arnoldw]

I have created a Shared Office add-in for Excel. The add-in works great and in my C# code I create a Windows Form (System.Windows.Forms.Form). Can I make this Form be a child of the Excel window itself? Basically, I want to make sure the dialog is always on top of the Excel window.

 

[misterstick]

why a windows form? why not a toolbar with macros? interop can do that pretty easily.


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[arnoldw]

Found the solution:

http://www.devnewsgroups.net/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms/topic12117.aspx

In order to make it work with Excel I made the following change:

New code:
IntPtr hwnd = Win32.FindWindow("XLMAIN", null);

Old code:
IntPtr hwnd = Win32.FindWindow("OpusApp", caption);