Capturing events by a background application

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I am trying to run a C# program that captures an event invoked from a DLL that listens to a finger print device. While my window is the active window - it works fine, but at the moment it is in the background- it does not capture the events.

How can I get over this problem?

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Posted 17-Jan-12 22:26pm

Edmond Malka

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Jan-12 1:21am

Do you mean just "handle events"? What is it supposed to mean, "background application"? Oh, I see, not activate main window, right? Unfortunately, this is how finger print software works, it looks like...
--SA

Edmond Malka 19-Jan-12 3:33am

Would creating a service work?

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Bernhard Hiller · Answer 1 · 2012-01-22T23:03:00

Is that "background application" actually a Windows service? Then the solution is shown in
Capturing Device Events in a C# Windows Service[^]
Or is it an application running in the user context, but its window is not the top window (or even hidden)? Then the solution is similar to this:
Background applications listening for keyboard activity[^]