Sending keys in Windows 10 IoT

Question

So, I developed a capacitive I2C keyboard for a Raspberry Pi 2 with Windows 10 IoT, so when my I2C controller detects a keystroke I need to send a key to the current page.

In windows forms I have used:

SendKeys.Send("{ENTER}");

How can I send keys?

Answer 1

Sorry, but it is not allowed in UWP due to some APIs restriction to be called only by user interaction. 

Instead, you can programmatically write text to the textboxes like:

// To simulate key 'A' and 'B'
Textbox1.Text += 'A';
Textbox1.Text += 'B';

// To simulate backspace if Textbox contains any character
if (Textbox1.Text.Length > 0)
{
    Textbox1.Text = Textbox1.Text.Remove(Textbox1.Text.Length - 1);
}

Problem with this snippet is, you can't simulate special key like ALT, CTRL, F1-F12, Shift and WinKey.