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• How do I process certain keys at the Form level, irrespective of which control has the focus?

  When the Form.KeyPreview property is set to true, the Form's KeyPress, KeyDown and KeyUp events will be fired even before the Control with the focus' corresponding events. You may choose to forward these message to the Control after processing...

• How do I process keyboard messages on an application-wide basis?

  You can implement the IMessageFilter interface in your main form. This amounts to adding an override for PreFilterMessage, and looking for the particular message you need to catch. Here are code snippets that catch an escape key on a keydown. You can...

• How do I send keystrokes to an application?

  What is the replacement for VB6's SendKeys command? Use the Send method from the SendKeys class found in the System.Windows.Forms namespace. Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ