You can detect most physical key presses by handling the KeyDown or KeyUp events. Key events occur in the following order: KeyDown; KeyPress; KeyUp; How to detect when the Enter Key Pressed in C#. The following C# code behind creates the KeyDown event han

I use Alexander Brevig’s button library for detecting key presses. This makes the code simple. At the start of the sketch you define which buttons are on which pins and if you are using pulldown (to GND) or pullup (to +5). I have always used pulldown.

The Button control intercepts the arrow key presses and moves focus to the next or previous control in the tab order in a manner so that the KeyDown, KeyUp and KeyPress events are not raised. However, the PreviewKeyDown event is raised, so that can be use