如果用户正在与另一个应用程序交互，则可能无法将您的应用程序放在前面。作为一般规则，只有当进程已经是前台进程时，该进程才能期望设置前台窗口。(微软在SetForegroundWindow() MSDN条目中记录了限制。)这是因为:

The user "owns" the foreground. For example, it would be extremely annoying if another program stole the foreground while the user is typing, at the very least interrupting her workflow, and possibly causing unintended consequences as her keystrokes meant for one application are misinterpreted by the offender until she notices the change. Imagine that each of two programs checks to see if its window is the foreground and attempts to set it to the foreground if it is not. As soon as the second program is running, the computer is rendered useless as the foreground bounces between the two at every task switch.

我想到了一个变通办法。我从一个用于实现热键的键盘钩子进行调用。如果我把它放入一个暂停的BackgroundWorker中，调用就会像预期的那样工作。这是一个拼凑，但我不知道为什么它不工作最初。

void hotkey_execute()
{
    IntPtr handle = new WindowInteropHelper(Application.Current.MainWindow).Handle;
    BackgroundWorker bg = new BackgroundWorker();
    bg.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(delegate
        {
            Thread.Sleep(10);
            SwitchToThisWindow(handle, true);
        });
    bg.RunWorkerAsync();
}

只是想给这个问题加上一个解。这个实现适用于我的场景，其中CaliBurn负责显示主窗口。

protected override void OnStartup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)
{
    DisplayRootViewFor<IMainWindowViewModel>();

    Application.MainWindow.Topmost = true;
    Application.MainWindow.Activate();
    Application.MainWindow.Activated += OnMainWindowActivated;
}

private static void OnMainWindowActivated(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var window = sender as Window;
    if (window != null)
    {
        window.Activated -= OnMainWindowActivated;
        window.Topmost = false;
        window.Focus();
    }
}

myWindow.Activate();

试图将窗口带到前台并激活它。

这应该做的把戏，除非我误解了，你想要永远在顶端的行为。在这种情况下，你需要:

myWindow.TopMost = true;

如果用户正在与另一个应用程序交互，则可能无法将您的应用程序放在前面。作为一般规则，只有当进程已经是前台进程时，该进程才能期望设置前台窗口。(微软在SetForegroundWindow() MSDN条目中记录了限制。)这是因为:

The user "owns" the foreground. For example, it would be extremely annoying if another program stole the foreground while the user is typing, at the very least interrupting her workflow, and possibly causing unintended consequences as her keystrokes meant for one application are misinterpreted by the offender until she notices the change. Imagine that each of two programs checks to see if its window is the foreground and attempts to set it to the foreground if it is not. As soon as the second program is running, the computer is rendered useless as the foreground bounces between the two at every task switch.

我知道这个问题相当古老，但我刚刚遇到了这个精确的场景，并想分享我实现的解决方案。

正如本页的评论中提到的，提出的几个解决方案不能在XP上工作，而我需要在我的场景中支持XP。虽然我同意@Matthew Xavier的观点，他认为这是一种糟糕的用户体验实践，但有时这完全是一种合理的用户体验。

将WPF窗口带到顶部的解决方案实际上是由我用来提供全局热键的相同代码提供给我的。Joseph Cooney的一篇博客文章包含了他的代码示例的链接，其中包含原始代码。

我已经清理并修改了一些代码，并将其实现为System.Windows.Window的扩展方法。我已经在XP 32位和Win7 64位上进行了测试，两者都能正常工作。

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Interop;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace System.Windows
{
    public static class SystemWindows
    {
        #region Constants

        const UInt32 SWP_NOSIZE = 0x0001;
        const UInt32 SWP_NOMOVE = 0x0002;
        const UInt32 SWP_SHOWWINDOW = 0x0040;

        #endregion

        /// <summary>
        /// Activate a window from anywhere by attaching to the foreground window
        /// </summary>
        public static void GlobalActivate(this Window w)
        {
            //Get the process ID for this window's thread
            var interopHelper = new WindowInteropHelper(w);
            var thisWindowThreadId = GetWindowThreadProcessId(interopHelper.Handle, IntPtr.Zero);

            //Get the process ID for the foreground window's thread
            var currentForegroundWindow = GetForegroundWindow();
            var currentForegroundWindowThreadId = GetWindowThreadProcessId(currentForegroundWindow, IntPtr.Zero);

            //Attach this window's thread to the current window's thread
            AttachThreadInput(currentForegroundWindowThreadId, thisWindowThreadId, true);

            //Set the window position
            SetWindowPos(interopHelper.Handle, new IntPtr(0), 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_SHOWWINDOW);

            //Detach this window's thread from the current window's thread
            AttachThreadInput(currentForegroundWindowThreadId, thisWindowThreadId, false);

            //Show and activate the window
            if (w.WindowState == WindowState.Minimized) w.WindowState = WindowState.Normal;
            w.Show();
            w.Activate();
        }

        #region Imports

        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        private static extern IntPtr GetForegroundWindow();

        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        private static extern uint GetWindowThreadProcessId(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr ProcessId);

        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        private static extern bool AttachThreadInput(uint idAttach, uint idAttachTo, bool fAttach);

        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        public static extern bool SetWindowPos(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr hWndInsertAfter, int X, int Y, int cx, int cy, uint uFlags);

        #endregion
    }
}

我希望这段代码能帮助其他遇到这个问题的人。