Capture and send keyboard / mouse input in C#

Question

I am looking for a way to send and receive keyboard information regardless of what app has focus. I remember back in College seeing a presentation about an old Windows API that let you change the cursor position and send right clicks and such.

Besides User32.dll is there a way to do this with the .net framework?

Answer 1

AFAIK, there's no way to capture the GLOBAL keyboard & mouse events. But there are a few articles on CodeProject which demonstrate the creation of .NET class wrappers for the same.

You can check them out here:

1) Processing Global Mouse and Keyboard Hooks in C#

2) Global Mouse and Keyboard Library

EDIT: BTW, I had created a SMALL keylogger in C# using the 1st library :)