C# or .NET Flushing Keyboard Buffer

Question

How do I flush the keyboard buffer in C# using Windows Forms?

I have a barcode scanner which acts like a keyboard. If a really long barcode is scanned and the cancel

Answer 1

You could do BIOS level flushing (http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B43993&x=22&y=10) but I would advise against this low level approach since Windows also does keyboard buffering on a higher level.

The best way seems to be to eat any arriving char while a specific flag is set. As SLaks suggests I would set KeyPreview to true and set e.Handled to true either in KeyPress or in KeyDown.. should make no difference.