title: Is there a way to programmatically give focus to an application in windows?
body: <p>I want to build an application using Visual Basic that will run in a Windows environment.  The application should be very simple:  Two buttons, and each of those buttons cause a different application to gain focus, pulling it forward in front of the Visual Basic app.  </p>
  
  <p>Can this be done?</p>
  
  <p>If it can not be done with Visual Basic, is there another programming language for which it can be done where a simple UI is fairly easy to create?</p>