Best way to solve global hotkey handling in C #?

Question

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How to register a global hotkey to say CTRL + SHIFT + (LETTER) using WPF and .NET 3.5?

I would like to have several global hotkeys in my new application (to control the application from anywhere in the windows), and all of these data sources / solutions that I found on the Internet seem to provide a peculiar solution for lameness (or solutions for only one g .hotkey, or solutions that create annoying mouse delays on the screen during operation).

Does anyone know of a resource that can help me achieve this, what can I learn? Anything?

Thank!:)

Answer 1

The most enjoyable solution I found is http://bloggablea.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/global-hotkeys-with-net/

Hotkey hk = new Hotkey(); hk.KeyCode = Keys.1; hk.Windows = true; hk.Pressed += delegate { Console.WriteLine("Windows+1 pressed!"); }; hk.Register(myForm); 

Notice how you can set different lambda for different hotkeys

Answer 2

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/CSLLKeyboardHook.aspx

If you are not using .net 3.5.

Answer 3

I would handle this using P / Invoke to call RegisterHotKey () for each hotkey, and then use NativeForm (assuming you use WinForms) to get notified of the WM_HOTKEY message. This should contain most of your hotkey code in one place.