How to get the text of a MessageBox when it has an icon?

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It appears that when the MessageBox has an icon, FindWindowEx returns the text of the first child (which is the icon in this case) hence, the zero length. Now, with the help of this answer, I got the idea to iterate the children until finding one with a text. This should work:

IntPtr handle = FindWindowByCaption(IntPtr.Zero, "Caption");

if (handle == IntPtr.Zero)
    return;

//Get the Text window handle
IntPtr txtHandle = IntPtr.Zero;
int len;
do
{
    txtHandle = FindWindowEx(handle, txtHandle, "Static", null);
    len = GetWindowTextLength(txtHandle);
} while (len == 0 && txtHandle != IntPtr.Zero);

//Get the text
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(len + 1);
GetWindowText(txtHandle, sb, len + 1);

//close the messagebox
if (sb.ToString() == "Original message")
{
    SendMessage(new HandleRef(null, handle), WM_CLOSE, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero);
}

Obviously, you could adjust it to fit your particular situation (e.g., keep iterating until you find the actual text you’re looking for) although I think the child with the text will probably always be the second one:

Messagebox in Spy++

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