How do you use send key to send the windows key

Question

Hello been looking through the below but still not sure on how to send the windows key.

please can you advise?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.sendkeys.send(v=vs.110).aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=vb#code-snippet-1

Kind Regards

Thomas

Answer 1

ok, gonna do it with crtl / esc

Answer 2

keybd_event function

Pinvoke.Net keybd_event (user32)

Virtual-Key Codes - See VK_LWIN

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La vida loca

Answer 3

ok, gonna do it with crtl / esc

 I`m not sure what using  ctrl/esc  to do it means because you have not explained what your main goal is by simulating the Win key being pressed.  If you care to explain the reason for needing to simulate the Win key being pressed,  perhaps there is another way to do what you need.

 Anyways,  in case you or anyone else that views this thread is interested,  here is a small example of using the keybrd_event Api function to simulate the (Win + D) key combo being pressed.  That key combination will minimize all windows and show the desktop.

 

Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Public Class Form1
    Private Const KEYEVENTF_KEYDOWN As Integer = &H0
    Private Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP As Integer = &H2

    <DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint:="keybd_event")>
    Private Shared Sub keybd_event(ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As UInteger, ByVal dwExtraInfo As UInteger)
    End Sub

    Private Sub Button1_Click_1(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        keybd_event(CByte(Keys.LWin), 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYDOWN, 0) 'Press the Left Win key
        keybd_event(CByte(Keys.D), 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYDOWN, 0)    'Press the D key
        keybd_event(CByte(Keys.D), 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0)      'Release the D key
        keybd_event(CByte(Keys.LWin), 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0)   'Release the Left Win key
    End Sub
End Class

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If you say it can`t be done then i`ll try it