Software Technology Tips

Sometimes we need to simulate the keyboard press events programmatically in our application to handle system defined messages and make the application more user friendly.

To simulate the keyboard press events for tabbing and Enter key press we can use following code snippets:

[Start VB.Net code]

Imports System.Threading

'Declare a thread object to do the keyboard press events.
Dim thrd as Thread

Private Sub btnEmail_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
                               Handles btnEmail.Click

        Me.Close()
        Application.DoEvents()

        thrd = New Thread(AddressOf ThreadTask)
        thrd.IsBackground = True
        thrd.Start()

End Sub

Private Sub ThreadTask()

        Thread.Sleep(100)
        SendKeys.SendWait("{TAB}")
        Thread.Sleep(10)
        SendKeys.SendWait("{ENTER}")
       
End Sub

[End VB.Net code]