how to use Windows keyboard_hook

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I want to prepare a keyboard hook just to know how hooking works , I am using visual studio 2012 for this purpose.so can anyone tell me what files I will need to create and link with ?

Thanks in advance for your help , I appreciate it.

Posted 22-Aug-14 19:17pm

keyur chauhan

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Aug-14 1:58am

Not clear. What files? what links with? This is not about files.
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-22T20:02:00

Please see my comment to the question.

Everything is clearly explained here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms644959%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms644990%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^].

There are two types of "keyboard hooks":
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms644984%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms644985%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^].

I don't know what else to explain here; it's just about reading documentation and doing everything by definition. At the same time, I would like to warn you: using Hooks is really difficult for beginners; especially difficult is the debugging of code.

—SA