how to show/hide windows Virtual keyboard

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Hi All,

I am designing an application in VB.Net which would run on the tablet PC.
I need a virtual keyboard in my application which can activated on the click of a button or some shortcut.

Can anybody tell how can I make use the windows virtual keyboard? How to show/hide the keyboard?

any help would be much appreciated.

Regards
Nitin

Posted 19-Feb-11 5:37am

gopalgupta

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I recently answered related Question; there is one important issue discussed here: Application focus getting and losing[^].

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Posted 19-Feb-11 15:43pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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If you are talking about the Virtual Keyboard COM component, then this[^] has some info.

Posted 19-Feb-11 5:43am

Henry Minute

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Espen Harlinn 20-Feb-11 9:36am

Nice to know, my 5

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DaveAuld · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-19T05:59:00

I have just tried the following and it works fine;

VB

Public Class Form1
    Private OSK As System.Diagnostics.Process
Private Sub ButtonShowOSK_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ButtonShowOSK.Click
        'Create the OSK Process
    OSK = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("osk.exe")
End Sub

Private Sub ButtonKillOSK_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ButtonKillOSK.Click
    Try
        OSK.Kill()
    Catch ex As Exception
        Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message)
    End Try
End Sub
End Class

Note1: the OSK process has a CloseMainWindow() method, however, it returns true, indicating success, but the OSK remains running.

Note2: the OSK process has a Close() method, but nothing hapens.

So, the KILL method works!