title: Reading keydown regardless of active application in vb.net
body: <p>I asked a question earlier about <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1395979/binding-key-combinations-to-your-application">keyhooks</a> in vb.net.</p>
  
  <p>My current issue is such:</p>
  
  <p>I have created a program which should perform a certain action whenever a certain group of keys is pressed at the same time. The program must be able to run in the background, or in the system tray or something. Essentially, this should work like the KeyDown event on a form, except the form in this case is everything.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not certain if there is a way to do this directly from within the .net API, but if there is I certainly have not found it.</p>