Checking if the workstation is locked
May 23. 2008 3 Comments
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- C#
I recently needed to determine whether the workstation that an application was running on is locked. Surprisingly, I couldn't find anything really simple on the internet so I figured out my own little method of doing it. I've simplified the code into a static method so it really easy to call. The code is below:
[DllImport("user32", EntryPoint = "OpenDesktopA", CharSet = CharSet.Ansi, SetLastError = true, ExactSpelling = true)] private static extern Int32 OpenDesktop(string lpszDesktop, Int32 dwFlags, bool fInherit, Int32 dwDesiredAccess); [DllImport("user32", CharSet = CharSet.Ansi, SetLastError = true, ExactSpelling = true)] private static extern Int32 CloseDesktop(Int32 hDesktop); [DllImport("user32", CharSet = CharSet.Ansi, SetLastError = true, ExactSpelling = true)] private static extern Int32 SwitchDesktop(Int32 hDesktop); public static bool IsWorkstationLocked() { const int DESKTOP_SWITCHDESKTOP = 256; int hwnd = -1; int rtn = -1; hwnd = OpenDesktop("Default", 0, false, DESKTOP_SWITCHDESKTOP); if (hwnd != 0) { rtn = SwitchDesktop(hwnd); if (rtn == 0) { // Locked CloseDesktop(hwnd); return true; } else { // Not locked CloseDesktop(hwnd); } } else { // Error: "Could not access the desktop..." } return false; }Hope this helps anyone that comes across the same problem.