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Are Windows window classes case-sensitive?


They are not case-sensitive. Window class names are string ATOMS, and according to MSDN,

  • Case is not significant in searches for an atom name in an atom table. Also, the entire string must match in a search operation; no substring matching is performed.
  • The string associated with a string atom can be no more than 255 bytes in size. This limitation applies to all atom functions.