Open console of game

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First of all Hi! I am new on this forum,

I always hope to post in the right section

Then here is my question.. I am not really familiar with vb.net but trying to learn it.. I want to access a dedicated server by a vb.net (2008) program.
So I want to send the 'console key' or tilde to a remote program. I tryed this:

First make the window active and then:

           SendKeys.SendWait(" {~}")

and

           SendKeys.SendWait(" `")

Both didnt work well. When I pull up the console by myself and send some random text with sendkeys then I could read it in the console but I want the console to be pulled open by this remote program.

So I gues the dedicated server only responds on the "keypress" and not particular on the tilde.

I found out that maybe SendMessage could help me but I dont really know how to use it.
Thanks in advance