Bringing window to front and sending a message

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Gah. Im depressed that I cant do this, I used to be good at programming! I'm in Vb.Net 2008 express, and I have a window that I need to send the message F9 to. So, I tried using sendmessage, but it isnt working. So I figured I would use keybd_event after bringing the window to the front. Problem is, I cant bring the window to the front!!! Im tearing my hair out. Okay. Heres my code (along with a whole bunch of other crud I threw in there to hopefully get it to work)

Public Class Form1
    Const VK_F9 = 120
    Const VK_SPACE As Int32 = &H20
    Const SW_SHOW As Int32 = 5
    Const WM_KEYDOWN As Integer = 256
    Const WM_KEYUP As Integer = 257.0
    <Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("user32", EntryPoint:="ShowWindow")> _
        Private Shared Function ShowWindow( _
        ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal nCmdShow As Integer) As Integer
    End Function
    Private SW_SHOWNORMAL As Integer = &H1
    Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)
    Declare Function SetForegroundWindow Lib "user32" Alias "SetForegroundWindow" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
 
    Private Sub Form1_Activated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Activated
        Dim recordingAudioHwnd As Int32 = Process.GetProcessesByName("Live 7.0.1")(0).MainWindowHandle
        Dim recordingVideoHwnd As Int32 = Process.GetProcessesByName("LiveCam")(0).MainWindowHandle
        ShowWindow(recordingAudioHwnd, SW_SHOWNORMAL)
        SetForegroundWindow(recordingAudioHwnd)
        keybd_event(VK_F9, 0, 0, 0)
        keybd_event(VK_F9, 0, WM_KEYUP, 0)
        Application.DoEvents()
        keybd_event(VK_SPACE, 0, 0, 0)
        keybd_event(VK_SPACE, 0, WM_KEYUP, 0)
        Me.Close()
    End Sub
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
 
    End Sub
End Class

NOTHING works. Thanks for your help.

Edit**
myAudio(0) is returning a hwnd for those who are wondering

edit#2-
I had to fix the declaration for ShowWindow. Now that somewhat works. Problem is, it isnt sending the vk_space ever, any ideas?