.NET Framework: System Events

Investigate the SystemEvents class, which allows your applications to react to several events raised by system activity.

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Demonstrates five of the available events of the SystemEvents class. Although there are more events to be tested, this demonstration shows off the events that can easily be tested from a client application.

Requirements

Requires the Trial or Release version of Visual Studio .NET Professional (or greater).

Running the Sample

The Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents class provides a number of public events that you can sink in your code. In this example, you can test a few of the events (the ones that are easy to trigger via user interface interaction).

To test the events, try these actions:

Check the documentation for the SystemEvents class (and the comments in the sample code) for more information.

Last Update: 7 July 2002