C# I want to make a program can copy a text from my pc to a Virtual machine

Question

What I have been trying to make is a program that takes a text input and then rewrites what is written, with a 3 second delay.

I have successfully made this program, so that it works on my own machine, but I want it to work, so that I can input text in it, and then target a notepad on a virtual machine. Is this possible?

What I have tried so far is:

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    try
    {
        int time = int.Parse(textBox2.Text);
        Thread.Sleep(time * 1000);
        SendKeys.Send((textBox1.Text));
    }
    catch
    {

        MessageBox.Show("Input text / time");
    }
}

This is in a Windows Forms App .Net Framework 4.6.2

Answer 1

What you could do, is you could have one program that runs on your VM, and one program that runs on your local machine that communicate over a virtual network.

The program on your local machine can send a request to the program on the VM, and upon receiving that request, the program on the VM, can run the same SendKeys functions that your existing program uses.

When I communicate over a network, I usually use ASP.NET Web API . The tutorials on that should give you the knowledge to allow you to create a simple app that communicates over a network.