Making an application draw a surface other than the desktop

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Published on 2010-04-04T10:38:48Z Indexed on 2010/04/04 10:43 UTC
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Hello

Im looking for a way to get an application, any application, that has been started using ShellExecuteEx or CreateProcess to draw on an offscreen surface such as a bitmap instead of drawing on the desktop, this should include any dialogs the (Open, Save, messages) that the application invokes.

I am familiar with the Windows API, GDI and device context, any suggestions would be much appreciated.

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