C# Signature:

[DllImport( "user32.dll", SetLastError=true,  EntryPoint="GetScrollBarInfo")]
private static extern int GetScrollBarInfo(IntPtr hWnd, uint idObject, ref SCROLLBARINFO psbi);

User-Defined Types:

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
public struct SCROLLBARINFO
{
    public int cbSize;
    public Rectangle rcScrollBar;
    public int dxyLineButton;
    public int xyThumbTop;
    public int xyThumbBottom;
    public int reserved;
    [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst=6)]
    public int[] rgstate;
}

Notes:

This didn't work for me with the Rectangle type for SCROLLBARINFO.rcScrollBar. To rectify this I altered this declaration to type RECT using the following standard definition.

public struct RECT
{
    public int left;
    public int top;
    public int right;
    public int bottom;
}

This then worked for me!

Tips & Tricks:

for idObject, use one of these values (see the MSDN link at the bottom for their usage):

private const uint OBJID_HSCROLL = 0xFFFFFFFA;
private const uint OBJID_VSCROLL = 0xFFFFFFFB;
private const uint OBJID_CLIENT = 0xFFFFFFFC;

Sample Code:

SCROLLBARINFO psbi = new SCROLLBARINFO();
psbi.cbSize = Marshal.SizeOf(psbi);

int nResult = GetScrollBarInfo(this.Handle, OBJID_CLIENT, ref psbi); // "this" is a scrollbar

if (nResult == 0)
{
    int nLatError = GetLastError(); // in kernel32.dll
}

probably Marshal.GetLastWin32Error() is better here

Alternative Managed API:

if you have a reference to a System.Windows.Forms.ScrollBar, use it's properties. otherwise,

SystemInformation.HorizontalScrollbar*

and

SystemInformation.VerticalScrollbar*

can give you some of the data.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms651286.aspx

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