"Shishir Kumar Mishra" <shishir@agnisoft.com> wrote in message
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> You still can use those features through P/Invoke.
>
> Add namespace System.Runtime.InteropServices in your code and then
declare
> [DllImport("user32", CharSet=CharSet.Auto)]
> unsafe public static extern short SystemParametersInfo (int uiAction, int
> uiParam, int* pvParam, int fWinIni);
>
>
> HTH
> Shishir Kumar Mishra
> Agni Software (P) Ltd.
> www.agnisoft.com
>
> "Christopher Burr" <cburr@kcc.com> wrote in message
> news:%23J%23HOgo5DHA.2576@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >
> > I'm trying to set the user's screensaver in the .NET world...
> >
> > In Win32 I could use a combination of setting the screen saver name via
> the
> > registry and then setting the time and active status using
> > SystemParametersInfo. And the system would use the new settings.
> >
> > Now that I'm trying to do it in .NET, I found that SystemParametersInfo
> does
> > not exist. I also found I can detect when the screensaver settings have
> > been changed, but what I cannot find out is how to cause the system to
> know
> > that the screensaver settings have changed...
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > --
> > Chris Burr
> > cburr@kcc.com
> >
> >
> >
>
>

"Christopher Burr" <cburr@kcc.com> wrote in message
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>
> I'm trying to set the user's screensaver in the .NET world...
>
> In Win32 I could use a combination of setting the screen saver name via
the
> registry and then setting the time and active status using
> SystemParametersInfo. And the system would use the new settings.
>
> Now that I'm trying to do it in .NET, I found that SystemParametersInfo
does
> not exist. I also found I can detect when the screensaver settings have
> been changed, but what I cannot find out is how to cause the system to
know
> that the screensaver settings have changed...
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> --
> Chris Burr
> cburr@kcc.com
>
>
>

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:17:18 -0600, Christopher Burr <cburr@kcc.com> wrote:

> Yea, was just hoping that I could avoid going to unmanaged code.
>

"Maniaque |CIA|" <cape[a]fromru[dot]com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:17:18 -0600, Christopher Burr <cburr@kcc.com>
wrote:
>
> > Yea, was just hoping that I could avoid going to unmanaged code.
> >
>
> And what's the problem? Use the registry and make it up through it!
>
> --
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