Detect Shift key is pressed without using events in Windows Forms?

Question

I need to be able to detect that the shift key is being held, but I don\'t want to use events or global variables to determine that. Is there an API in C# that lets you ask

Answer 1

Not sure if this available in C# but you can call GetAsyncKeyState. This method returns the state of a key at the time the method is called.

To call it from C# you'll need to use interop like any other Win32 API.