All it'd take is a single drill hole and re-wiring the sensor, but it near the top of the window and no one's even gonna notice it's there. Like mneary said if you have eaves it's even more perfect you can recess it up, completely out of site.
Where C# is just different from C++. value types and reference types exist (struct is value-type, class is reference-type) value types live on the stack, reference types on the heap; references can point to null (must not be valid) code is packaged in assemblies in C#; no automatic conversion from int to bool in C#; main-function is called Main in C#
Okay, let's cut to the chase--you want to learn to program in C/C++ and you want to know exactly what you should do, right now. C is a programming language originally developed for developing the Unix operating system. It is a low-level and powerful language, but it lacks many modern and useful constructs. C++ is a newer language, based on C, that adds many more modern programming language features that make it easier to program than C.