Capture Ctrl+Alt+Del

[Pradeep M M]

Hi Folks,
Can any of your folks tell me as to how can I capture the keys Ctrl+Alt+Del in C# or Vb.NET.
Pradeep

[phoenix]

In Win98 you could pretend the screensaver was running, for NT you'll have
to rewrite gina.dll afaik. There is a sample of it on msdn. But I think it
won't be possible in C# or VB.Net.
Actually I never met a circumstance on which not being able to press
CTRL+ALT+DEL is a good case. Not even internet cafes. If it crashes I still
want to be able to terminate it.

Yves

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Hi Folks,
Can any of your folks tell me as to how can I capture the keys Ctrl+Alt+Del in C# or Vb.NET.

Pradeep

[Tian Min Huang]

Hello Pradeep,

Thanks for your post. As I understand, you want to capture the
Ctrl-Alt-Delete programmatically. Please correct me if there is
any misunderstanding. I'd like to share the following information with you:

To trap Ctrl+Alt+Del, generally speaking, you have three options: write a
GINA stub, write a keyboard driver, or replace TaskMgr.exe with your own
program. Creating a GINA stub is comparatively easy to implement among
these three options.

Yves is correct that we have to use VC instead of C#, VB to implement a
GINA Stub. As you know, a GINA Stub is a native dynamic-link library (DLL)
exported to Winlogon that requires a valid, consistent function to call
into. This requires a DLL export, which .NET Framework does not support.
Managed code (VB .NET, C#) has no concept of a consistent value for a
function pointer because these function pointers are proxies that are built
dynamically.

There is an existing GINA Stub sample in MSDN. To trap Ctrl-Alt-Delete, you
just need to replace its lxLoggedOnSAS with the one in my code snippet
below.

GinaStub Sample: Pass-through "Stub" Gina
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/vcsample98/
html/vcsmpginastubsample.asp?frame=true

/*----------------------------code snippet----------------------*/
int
WINAPI
WlxLoggedOnSAS(
PVOID pWlxContext,
DWORD dwSasType,
PVOID pReserved)
{
if (dwSasType == WLX_SAS_TYPE_CTRL_ALT_DEL)
{
/* Add additional code of you own */
return WLX_SAS_ACTION_NONE;
}
else
return GWlxLoggedOnSAS( pWlxContext, dwSasType, pReserved );
}
/*-----------------------------end of--------------------------------*/

In addition, I believe the following MSDN aritcles are helpful:

Typename, Disabling Keys in Windows XP with TrapKeys
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...A/default.aspx

WlxLoggedOnSAS
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/security/se
curity/wlxloggedonsas.asp

Loading and Running a GINA DLL
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/security/se
curity/loading_and_running_a_gina_dll.asp

Please feel free to let me know if you have any problems or concerns.

Regards,

HuangTM
Microsoft Online Partner Support
MCSE/MCSD

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