Simulating keypress in C#??

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I have a form (coded in C#) with a single button. When i click the button, the windows start button must be pressed. How do i do this?
I did quite a bit of searching for the solution but to no avail.

Posted 11-Jan-10 1:41am

S.Raaj Nishanth

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Solution 1

Use Spy++ to get a handle to the start button, and then post the appropriate system message using that hwnd.

Posted 11-Jan-10 2:25am

#realJSOP

Solution 2

I don't think SendKeys will do this because

SendKeys

only works for sending keys to an Application. However, this library should do the trick:

http://www.codeguru.com/vb/gen/vb_system/keyboard/article.php/c14629__1/[^]

Posted 11-Jan-10 4:00am

Rick Shaub

Updated 14-Jan-10 6:10am

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Abhishek Sur · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-11T05:18:00

Solution 3

You need SendKeys to do this. SendKeys invokes a keyboard key for your application.

for further help go here :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8c6yea83(VS.85).aspx[^]

Hope you like the solution. :cool:

Posted 11-Jan-10 5:18am

Abhishek Sur