Capture Keyboard Events With The Intent Of Preventing Users From Being Able To Hit Ctrl + Alt + Del
Jun 28, 2005
I am trying to find a way to capture keyboard events with the intent of preventing users from being able to hit Ctrl + Alt + Del while my application is running. I've spent several hours poking around looking for inspiration but only finding unclear and half-baked examples. As such, I was thrilled to stumble across the article: Managing Low-Level Keyboard Hooks in VB .NET written by Paul Kimmel [URL] This article is insightful, comprehensive, well-written, and I thought it was a huge help. One little problem though, the code that was provided did not work, (I knew it was too good to be true!).
Now, Mr. Kimmel seemed very knowledgable and I think that he probably tested his code, so quite likely the problem is something that I'm doing wrong seeing as I am a newbie. As the article suggests I cut and pasted his code into a module in my project (solution I guess is the proper term), and I call the HookKeyboard method from a button on a form, and Presto! Nothing happens. Stepping through this code I see that the second line in HookKeyboard:
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Aug 9, 2010
I've written an app with a simple textbox which attempts to identify a user from their typing habits (interval between key presses, duration key is held, time between key strokes ie a->s is quicker than a->v for some users, shorter for others depending on typing style). It's far from perfect but it does correctly identify moderate-large differences in style.I'm hoping to use this as a form of security monitor - If the typing style of the user doesn't fit a recognised pattern, report to a central server.
Of course, the next step in testing this is to begin to capture "regular" typing habits - ie when browsing, switching between apps, etc.What I can't figure out how to do is capture keyboard input for all applications (excluding the login/welcome screen, alternate desktops, etc. - I have no reason to parse that and there's probably not enough input to analyse anyway)Disclaimer: Yes, I know this comes dangerously close to writing a keylogger which is verboten but if I wanted to do that, I'd write a keyboard driver in C++ - I'm sure it would be far more streamlined and easier to obfuscate than a hulking .Net MSIL assembly. I have no doubt I'll be fending off "That's a keylogger" comments but I've hit a wall and need to ask somewhere.
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Jan 18, 2010
I am trying to capture keyboard events in my vb.net applications. I am able to capture all the single key events. I am not able to capture (<) key which is (shift + ,) and (>) key which is (shift + .).
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Jan 6, 2009
Does anyone have any experience in writing VB.Net apps that control Internet usage? I have a friend that needs to have her office computers monitored in order to prevent the users from playing on the internet. I'm not sure what the best approach to this issue is.
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Sep 9, 2010
I want to capture when someone uses Ctrl + C even when off focus. im using Visual Basic 2010.
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Aug 18, 2009
Is there Any way to handle the crtl + Alt + Del Key combination. Take for instance in a quiz application (Win Forms ), the user should not be able to switch to other windows till the test is over.
I'm able to capture the ctrl and alt key strokes individually, using c# standard properties. but once they user hits the del key . The control goes out of my appliation and windows handles it.
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Mar 23, 2010
I have USB RFID reader which acts like a keyboard; how can I capture the keyboard Input?
As Windows 2000 and Windows XP obtain exclusive access to Input and Output reports for keyboard/mouse devices.
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Jun 14, 2009
I am a newbie to this forum. I searched across a lot to find a way in VB.net how to capture the keyboard and mouse events scoping to the whole computer. Basically what I want to do is make a keyboard and mouse macro recorder application, so that the regular job of starting the same programs again and again everyday might be automated.
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Jul 13, 2011
I was a professional software designer using VB6. Now that I've converted to VB2005 years later, use, with pages of unrelated information. With VB6 I could use Left$, Mid$, etc to parse keyboard input into a string. For example in the KeyPress event of a name box I could use
Case "A" To "Z"
CFName$ = Left$(CFNameBox.Text, CFNameBox.SelStart) + Key$ + Mid$(CFNameBox.Text, CFNameBox.SelStart + CFNameBox.SelLength + 1)
When converting a program from VB6 to VB2005 the software changed the line to
CFName = VB.Left(CFNameBox.Text, CFNameBox.SelectionStart) & Key & Mid(CFNameBox.Text, CFNameBox.SelectionStart + CFNameBox.SelectionLength + 1)
When writing another program I used the VB.Left(), etc, but it gives me an error. So, the question is, what is the correct way to capture keyboard input from text boxes and construct strings?
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Mar 7, 2010
How do I make the form captures the keyboard events when it is inactive or was in the background in Visual Basic 2008
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Mar 30, 2012
How do I bind a keyboard key to an event? Everything I have found so far is related to using the keyboard for shortcuts to buttons on the form. I guess you could say I want to do the opposite.
For example: This is just basic code I did while learning how to use the xBox controller with my windows forms.
If currentState.Buttons.LeftShoulder = ButtonState.Pressed Then
tbLB.Text = " Pressed"
Else
tbLB.Text = " Released"
End If
Instead of changing the text in my textbox I want to have the left shoulder button or maybe my Dpad act as the "Tab" (let me worry about the controller I've got that handled, as not not confuse anyone) key on the keyboard in order to navigate through my form by tabbing upward or downward through a menu. Then maybe use the "A" button on the controller as the "Enter" key.
Where in: Replacing "tbLB.Text = " Pressed"" with code that would press virtually press the "TAB" key.
Of course using the xBox controller is dealing with XNA, but at this point I have figured out some basics of using the controller with my forms, just need to know how to mimic the keyboard keys.
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Oct 15, 2010
Private Sub Form1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown If e.Modifiers = Keys.Control AndAlso e.KeyCode = Keys.A Then
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And whenever I click control-b (on keyboard) it inserts the bold tag twice.why does it do that? i use to have that code in a button, and the keyboard event would lead to button1.performclick but now when putting the button code in the keyboard it adds the tags twice
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Jan 23, 2010
I'm using a textbox to define a hotkey, and I need to make the textbox receive key events and prevent the form from receiving them.The reason it's a problem is because Tab (and probably other keys) is a valid key, but the form uses that as a shortcut, so the textbox never receives the keypress.
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Apr 27, 2012
how can I capture an event like a button click or timer event, if I created the controls at run-time?
Ex: Dim a As Button
Dim b As Timer
I want to capture the click event of the button "a" and the timer event of the timer "b".
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Jul 29, 2009
How can we capture events of msmq in vb.net.I dont see any events if I declare object type of System.MessageQueue. Do I need to include the COM MS Message Queue 3.0 lib to deal with events and message queue?
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Nov 13, 2011
Im Building a auction application and i need to catch the exceptions i.e if two people press the bid button at the same time i need to capture that exception and figure out who was has the highest bidder out of the pair of them then show the relevant message, my question is how can i achieve the above?
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Oct 8, 2010
I am writing a program to record and playback all the keyboard and mouse events using the journalrecord and journalplayback methods. The code also stores this recorded event in the file and opens the file for playing. The mouse movements are playing fine but none of the mouse clicks or keyboard keypresses are playing fine. Attaching the record and playback hook procedure.
Private Function RecordHookProc( _
ByVal nCode As Integer, ByVal wParam As IntPtr, _
ByVal lParam As IntPtr) As Integer
'Stop recording at "BREAK" key press
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Win32 is a class file which I have used for declaration of constants and importing DLL files.
readFs and writeFs are the Filestreams
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Oct 12, 2010
I'm writing a Windows Forms app that uses a DataGridView control. I have row select enabled on the control. I would like to trap the DoubleClick event, but it doesn't seem to fire reliably - I often have to double-click on a row 2 or 3 times before the event is triggered. Could anyone point me to a way to capture this more reliably?
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Apr 5, 2012
I am trying to capture SHUTDOWN and LOGOFF Events, so that I can be alerted when my process stops. The below code works in detecting these events. I am trying to get it to release the monitoring of the system events after the email has been sent, Being newer to VB, I am not sure how to do this. I copied this code from another google forum.
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Jun 21, 2012
Ok, so I'm writing a basic windows form application in VB.net as you do and need to be able to raise keyboard events based on data received from the serial port. I'm able to receive the characters that I want (lets say a lower case c) and display them. Its also easy enough for me to find the keycode. What I want to do though is tell windows that key "c" has been pressed. The application is paired to a bluetooth terminal, I wanted to have the experience of writing the code behind this myself rather than using another library although it seems I've failed already. How would I go about doing this?
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Apr 16, 2009
Capture resize events including minimize then maximize
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Mar 21, 2011
I'm trying to automate a product that provides no such automation capability.I've take a cursory look at loading the app in a separate AppDomain, and also, through reflection, executing the Program.Main() to get the app running. I also tried getting the windowhandle from a separately created Process object (which I've learned will not work).If I have a reference to their assembly added to my project so I can reference an instance of "TheirProduct.FormMain", what, if it's possible, is the best way to go about capturing events from that form? What I need to do is to be able to capture a couple events, and perform a few Button.PerformClick() against the form.
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Jun 26, 2011
I'm working on a Personal Assistant program that acts as a electronic scrapbook/excercise book/encyclopedia/diary for my college studies. This is programmed in Visual Basic 2010 This program has a form where it connects to a server to check for updates, sometimes the URL can change giving the program an error, crashing it. In the preferences menu, I want to see people able to manually find the web page for the download by using the 'WebBrowser' tool, but when someone is on say [url] and they clicked Set URL... the button. How would I make a label have the same text as the current viewing URL address?
Also somehow similar, if people are to lose/move the text file that contains the version number, this throws Visual Basic off. I want users able to click browse and find the location of this text file if they still have it and set the address for example ("C:UsersJoshDocumentsversion.txt) to tell Visual Basic that's the new location. How would this be achieved? New problem: I let my users use a month calander to add upcoming events/ home work, this is to make the program notify them about certain events when they open the program again. Now what I need to do is have the label when a button is clicked, hold the value of the picked day, one that holds the value of the month, one that holds the value of the current date and so forth. How would I do this?
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Jun 6, 2012
I found a VB WebCam program from Africa on this site [url]
However one of the instructions is to "add a reference to WebcamControl.dll ". I've researched that .dll and it appears to be able to "Silently record users' sensitive personal information, identity details and business files, make traces of the users' online activities and browser habits and then transmit them to insecure remote servers".
I haven't downloaded this .dll or found a location to download it. Am I correct in assuming this program was designed with malicious intent?
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May 25, 2011
I am working on a program that creates a "license" file. This file is expected to be binary, containing a name, today's date, a warning date, an expiration date, and a preference of Metric or Imperial units of measurement, and essentially authorizes programs to work until the expiration date is reached, before which the warning date notifies the user that the license will expire.For this functionality to be fully utilized, the dates must not be able to be easily edited so as to prevent people from setting the date to whatever they want and keeping the program. What I have now writes each field from a String or Integer into whatever the BinaryWriter class deems should be written when I use its "write" method.I have been experimenting with the difference between Big and Little Endian encoding, which is selectable in the form.
If the entered name has no spaces, the file looks a bit unreadable, but not enough. With Big Endian, most of the Expiration Date is still showing; with Little Endian, the other two dates are mostly visible. However, using spaces in the entered name changes the format of the outputted text quite a bit, making all characters deliminated by a space, and therefore incredibly easy to change. My apologies that I cannot actually show you what the files look like.Is there a better/more accepted way of storing this data?I would like the license files to work with existing FORTRAN programs, of which read unformatted files in the general structure I've detailed, but reverse-engineering this sounds a bit difficult from what I've read and my employer has offered to rewrite the FORTRAN files to accept this new license creation program if need be.
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Jun 1, 2009
I am using a 3rd part dll file (SolidWorks EModelView.dll, COM file) that has a version of 9.2.0.128. When I add it to the resources for the application, however, the AxInteropEModelView.DLL and InteropEModelView.DLL references show a version of 9.0.0.0. When I install the application on a client machine and try to run it, the application says it cannot find AxInteropEModelView.DLL version 9.2.0.128!
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Jul 28, 2009
how do i call a routine when the user press CTRL+Z or ctrl+somthing?
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Jun 8, 2011
using the getasynckeystate for ctrl + c and ctrl+ v or copy and paste..How will I do that in this code? For example when i type in notepad it should also do in the richtextbox with this code it work but when it comes to copy and paste word in notepad it does not works and the richtextbox is empty?
Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
For i = 1 To 255
result = 0
result = GetAsyncKeyState(i)
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Mar 6, 2009
I am using visual studio 2005.If I try to do wordwrap using Key combination (ctrl+R, ctrl+R), I get following messege:"The Key combination (ctrl+R, ctrl+R) is bound to command (&Rename...) which is not currently available.
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Nov 18, 2010
I am using vb2005 to send keystroke to stock application software so i need to send Ctrl+C to an open window in the stock software then send Ctl+V to Excel in a specified worksheet and cell
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