Programmatically open start menu possible?

[juvi]

Hello,

Is it possible to open the start menu programmatically in .net cf - c#?

thx in advance
juvi

 

[Chris Tacke, MVP]

You can hack it together with simulated mouse movements, but why would you
want to? What's the goal here?

-Chris

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Sending characters Ctrl+Esc will do it, too.

Paul T.

 

[Simon Hart [MVP]]

I would imagine this would annoy users somewhat.

 

[Daniel Moth]

You could use this:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2004/11/mouseevent.html

Cheers
Daniel

 

[juvi]

Thank you all for your replies.

Paul G. Tobey's solution seems to be the good one for me. I am writing a
fullscreen application where I need to be able to open the start menu through
a button.

thx for all help.

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Lost me there. If you allow the Start Menu to be shown, you're no longer a
full screen application...

Paul T.

 

[juvi]

I want to use OpenNETCF.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.Send("Ctrl+Esc"); and its not
working...what I am doing wrong?

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

I was simply indicating what you needed to send, not a specific string for
SendKeys (which I've never used). In fact, it looks like something along
the lines of "^{ESC}", which is still pretty user-friendly, is the answer.
Nothing you shouldn't have been able to figure out yourself.

Paul T.

 

[Chris Tacke, MVP]

Quite possibly nothing. I tried using SendKeys a couple weeks ago and found
all sorts of problems with it so I ended up doing a whole lot of fixes.
THose fixes are in our code base but not in anything currently published.
Take a look at this bug report:

http://bugzilla.opennetcf.com/show_bug.cgi?id=268

-Chris