Sendkeys vista

Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. Thank you. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information provided here. This example uses the My. SendKeys method to send keystrokes to an external application, the Notepad application, started by the Shell method.

An ArgumentException exception is raised if an application with the requested process identifier cannot be found. The call to the Shell method requires full trust SecurityException class.

The My. The SendKeys class has been updated for the. NET Framework 3. The SendKeys class is susceptible to timing issues, which some developers have had to work around. The updated implementation is still susceptible to timing issues, but is slightly faster and may require changes to the workarounds. The SendKeys class tries to use the previous implementation first, and if that fails, uses the new implementation. As a result, the SendKeys class may behave differently on different operating systems.

Additionally, when the SendKeys class uses the new implementation, the SendWait method will not wait for messages to be processed when they are sent to another process. If your application relies on consistent behavior regardless of the operating system, you can force the SendKeys class to use the new implementation by adding the following application setting to your app. To force the SendKeys class to use the previous implementation, use the value "JournalHook" instead.

Gets the Type of the current instance. Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Send Keys Class Reference Is this page helpful?

Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Namespace: System. Visual C. Sign in to vote. Hello, I was using the method SendKeys. Monday, March 16, PM. Hi Hiba, Do you have a try run your application on another computer?

Do you use SendKeys function to send "F5" to another document or application? Would you mind providing your sample code? I use the code below to send "F5" to Notepad on Windows Server , and it has no problem. So, please have a try running my sample code on your Vista system and follow up. Thank you!