Calling the on-screen keyboard using a button in C#

Question

I am creating a windows application using C#, where in a button on the GUI when clicked, should display the on-screen keyboard.

Would appreciate if any help is granted. thanks.

Also, since I am mostly using Emgu Cv library for the rest of my app, Can we simply use it for calling the On-screen keyboard?

Sellingplater

Process.Start("osk.exe"); should work on all Windows systems. – Uranometry

@CodyGray unfortunately not working when building for x86 (I am forced due to GeckoFx) – Rifling

Answer 1

In C#, you can simply write the following line of code to invoke the on-screen keyboard application that comes with Windows:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("osk.exe");

You can find more help here.

Garvey

I just tried it in win10 (creators update) and it works – Alek

On Windows 10 you need to change Build settings to perform target in x64 like @Hassan Rahman said – Radcliffe

The solution in this link worked for me: #2929755 – Mammiemammiferous

Answer 2

For Windows 10 x64, You have set the project build to x64 as shown in image.

Process process = Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo(
            ((Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System) + @"\osk.exe"))));

Ladle

Answer 3

I had some problems trying to run osk within and endpoint. This works for me:

var onScreenKeyboardProcess = new ProcessStartInfo("osk.exe")
{                    
    UseShellExecute = true
};
Process.Start(onScreenKeyboardProcess);

Biscuit