Simulating Key Press c#

Question

I want to simulate F5 key press in my c# program, When IE is open I want to be able refresh my website automatically.

Answer 1

Simple one, add before Main

[DllImport("USER32.DLL", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
public static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string lpClassName, string lpWindowName);
[DllImport("USER32.DLL")]
public static extern bool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hWnd);

Code inside Main/Method:

string className = "IEFrame";
string windowName = "New Tab - Windows Internet Explorer";
IntPtr IE = FindWindow(className, windowName);
if (IE == IntPtr.Zero)
{
   return;
}
SetForegroundWindow(IE);
InputSimulator.SimulateKeyPress(VirtualKeyCode.F5);

Note:

1. Add InputSimulator as reference. To download Click here

2. To find Class & Window name, use WinSpy++. To download Click here

Answer 2

Another alternative to simulating a F5 key press would be to simply host the WebBrowser control in the Window Forms application. You use the WebBrowser.Navigate method to load your web page and then use a standard Timer and on each tick of the timer you just re-Navigate to the url which will reload the page.