I was looking for a “.net” way of detecting the CapsLock state, but almost all the references pointed to pinvoke code like:

<DllImport("user32.dll")> _
Public Shared Function GetKeyState(VirtKey As Integer) As Integer
End Sub

And I finally found two ways:

1) You can call methods from the System.Console class:

You can use the System.Console.CapsLock property and if you want the NumLock state use: System.Console.NumberLock

or

2) You can call make an instance of Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices.Keyboard. (For this if you are in C# you need to add a reference to Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll)

For example:

Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices.Keyboard key = new Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices.Keyboard();

and use properties like:

key.CapsLock

key.NumLock

key.ScrollLock

key.ShiftKeyDown

key.CtrlKeyDown

key.AltKeyDown