how to fire the events in non client area of window in wpf?

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Hi All,
I added one border in top of the window.i want to perform mouse down event on that border.but i cant perform the mousedown event even isMouseOver property also will not become true when cursor in that border.i think it is because of i placed border in non client area of window.so could you please explain about non client area and how to perform event in that region.

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Rajkumar

Posted 1-Sep-15 17:58pm

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Updated 1-Sep-15 17:59pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Sep-15 0:40am

Only via P/Invoke. I would not advise it, in most cases. What exactly do you want to achieve?
—SA

Member 11952134 2-Sep-15 0:59am

i want to achieve mouse down event in non client area

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Sep-15 3:28am

This is not what I meant. I mean why, what do you want to achieve, ultimately?
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-01T21:33:00

Please see:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/vstudio/en-US/f54dde25-b748-4724-a7fe-a355b086cfd4/mouse-event-in-the-nonclient-window-area[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.interop.hwndsource%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.interop.hwndsource.fromhwnd%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.interop.hwndsource.addhook%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.interop.hwndsourcehook%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

—SA