UIElement Keyboard Events
UIElement exposes two simple routed events for keyboard input: KeyDown and KeyUp. The EventArgs parameter passed to keyboard event handlers is a KeyRoutedEventArgs instance that contains the following properties:
→ Key—The key that was pressed or released. This property is of type Windows.System.VirtualKey, a large enumeration of every possible key.
→ KeyStatus—Reports extended information for certain keys.
→ Handled—The typical routed event property that can “halt” bubbling.
Although an app might be used with a software keyboard or hardware keyboard, the resulting input looks identical.
The KeyStatus property is a Windows.UI.Core.CorePhysicalKeyStatus structure. In case you didn’t get all the hints from its name, this ...
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