HOWTO: Programmatically Undock Using the Keyboard Buffer

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From a VxD, you can use VKD_Force_Keys to force scan codes into the keyboard buffer just as if they had been typed on the physical keyboard. These keys are processed in the context of the focus virtual machine.

From an application, you can use the keybd_event function to synthesize the appropriate keystrokes to undock a laptop. The code below sends a CTRL ESC sequence:

      #include <windows.h>

      main()
      {
          keybd_event( VK_CONTROL,0x9d, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY | 0, 0);
          keybd_event( VK_ESCAPE,0x81, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY | 0, 0 );
          keybd_event( VK_ESCAPE,0x81, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY |
   KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0 );
          keybd_event( VK_CONTROL,0x9d, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY |
   KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0 );
      }