SendKeys.SendWait function - send special key to application

Question

I try to figure out how to send the character "^" (not the CTRL command) to a external text window.

This different codes I have tried:

SendKeys.SendWait("^");
SendKeys.SendWait("(^)");
Sendkeys.SendWait("{^}"); //This should be the right code, but it doesn't work either

None of those would type me the character "^" in a text field. If I send normal text to the window it appears in the window. The "^" cannot be typed somehow. I had a look in the MSDN and in the Online Help, but couldn't find anything close to that problem. Any ideas?

Answer 1

To send the character "^" using SendKeys.SendWait(), you need to think about which keys you're actually pressing. On an en-US keyboard it's Shift & 6, which translates to this:

SendKeys.SendWait("+6");

So whichever key combination you use to generate the "^" character, enter those keys into the SendKeys.SendWait() call.