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Global System Hooks in .NET

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A class library for using *global* system hooks in .NET.
// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// File: HookTypes.cs		Class: Kennedy.ManagedHooks.HookTypes
// Date: 2/25/2004			Author: Michael Kennedy
// Language: C#				Framework: .NET
//
// Copyright: Copyright (c) Michael Kennedy, 2004-2005
// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// License: See License.txt file included with application.
// Description: See compiled documentation (Managed Hooks.chm)
// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

using System;

namespace Kennedy.ManagedHooks
{
	/// <include file='ManagedHooks.xml' path='Docs/HookTypes/enum/*'/>
	public enum HookTypes
	{
		/// <include file='ManagedHooks.xml' path='Docs/General/Empty/*'/>
		None		= -100,
		/// <include file='ManagedHooks.xml' path='Docs/General/Empty/*'/>
		Keyboard	= 2,
		/// <include file='ManagedHooks.xml' path='Docs/General/Empty/*'/>
		Mouse		= 7,
		/// <include file='ManagedHooks.xml' path='Docs/General/Empty/*'/>
		Hardware	= 8,
		/// <include file='ManagedHooks.xml' path='Docs/General/Empty/*'/>
		Shell		= 10,
		/// <include file='ManagedHooks.xml' path='Docs/General/Empty/*'/>
		KeyboardLL	= 13,
		/// <include file='ManagedHooks.xml' path='Docs/General/Empty/*'/>
		MouseLL		= 14
	};
}

//
// The following hooks seem to result in serious errors
// when installing them in the current implementation of this
// library. Please, only add them back *at your own risk*. 
// Remember the Dr. Suess quote from the article...
//

//JournalRecord			= 0,
//JournalPlayback		= 1,
//GetMessage			= 3,
//CallWindowProcedure	= 4,
//ComputerBasedTraining	= 5,
//SystemMessageFilter	= 6,
//Debug					= 9,
//ForegroundIdle		= 11,
//CallWindowProret		= 12,

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United States United States
Michael Kennedy is a founding partner and software engineer at United Binary, LLC (http://www.unitedbinary.com [^]) and he is active in the agile software development community. Michael has been developing software for over 10 years. The last 4 of those years have been solidly focused on .NET development. For more information, please visit his website http://www.michaelckennedy.net [^]

In a previous life, Michael was pursuing a fairly successful career in mathematics before he saw the True Light and chose The Way of Programming.

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