How to dock to the edge of the application window on the desktop?

Question

.NET

You need to occupy the side of the desktop (like a toolbar or like Miranda IM), so that the rest of the windows, when maximized, are content with only the rest of the screen. The decision on WPF/WinAPI interests.

Answer 1

I won’t tell you about .NET, but in WinAPI the SystemParametersInfo function is used with the SPI_SETWORKAREA parameter for setting and SPI_GETWORKAREA for getting.