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Virtual Desktop: A Simple Desktop Management Tool

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25 Jul 2008CPOL5 min read 231K   11.9K   143  
This article gives you an overview of Windows Station, Windows Desktop and how to work with them. It also has a sample application (Virtual Desktop) demonstrating multiple desktop management.
#pragma once

#define ARRAY_SIZE 1024

class CDesktopManager
{
public:
	CDesktopManager(void);
	virtual ~CDesktopManager(void);

private:
	static TCHAR *m_szDesktopNames[ARRAY_SIZE];
	static int m_iDesktopCount;
//public:
//	CDesktop(TCHAR *szDesktopName);
public:
	static bool PopulateDesktopList(void);
	static int GetDesktopCount(void);

	friend BOOL CALLBACK EnumDesktopProc(LPTSTR lpszDesktopName,LPARAM lParam);
	static void ReleaseMemory(void);
public:
	static bool SwitchDesktop(TCHAR * szDesktopName);
	static bool CreateDesktop(TCHAR * szDesktopName);
	static void GetDesktopName(int iIndex, TCHAR * szDesktopName);
private:
	static void AddDesktop(TCHAR * lpszDesktopName);
public:
	static bool IsCurrentDesktop(TCHAR * szDesktopName);
	static bool LaunchApplication(TCHAR * szApplicationFilePath, TCHAR * szDesktopName);
};

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