Low level keyboard input from Windows

Question

What win32 calls can be used to detect key press events globally (not just for 1 window, I\'d like to get a message EVERY time a key is pressed), from a windows service?

Answer 1

If you are implementing this in a .net application i'd recommend GlobalKeyboardHook, Otherwise i'd look at it's source and take what you need since it is implementing the DLLImport functions mentioned above.