Selenium sendkeys ctrl+5 is not working - selenium

Question

I have a requirement wherein
I need to invoke F12 developer tool in IE.
Navigate to profiler tab.
start profiler
I am using IE 9. In the below code, I am trying to navigate by entering ctrl5. It is not working.
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.HasInputDevices;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Keyboard;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
public class InvokeIEbrowser {
#Test
public void IEdriver() {
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver",
"D:\\2015\\softwares\\IEDriverServer_x64_2.48.0\\IEDriverServer.exe");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);
capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.IE_ENSURE_CLEAN_SESSION, true);
capabilities.setCapability("ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS", true);
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
/*
Keyboard keyboard = ((HasInputDevices) driver).getKeyboard();
keyboard.sendKeys(Keys.F12);
*/
/*
driver.get("http://mail.yahoo.com");
System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
*/
try {
Thread.sleep(5000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
//driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.NumberPad5);
//keyboard.sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL);
//getKeyboard().sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL, Keys.F5);
Actions actionObject = new Actions(driver);
actionObject.sendKeys(Keys.F12).perform();
//actionObject.sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys(Keys.NUMPAD5).keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).perform();
actionObject.sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL.NUMPAD5).perform();
System.out.println("done");
}
}

Answer 1

You could try using Keys.chord() (more about it here):
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("String")).SendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, Keys.NUMPAD5 ));
or by using the Action class and the unicode representation:
Actions action = new Actions();
action.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys(String.valueOf('\u0035')).perform();
You can find more references about the unicode representation here.

Answer 2

Are you just trying to send the hotkey to the page? Try an extension of driver...
public static void sendCtrl5(this IWebDriver Driver)
{
Driver.FindElement(By.TagName("body")).Click(); // make window active
new Actions(Driver)
.SendKeys(Keys.Control + Keys.NumberPad5)
.Perform();
}
Use: driver.sendCtrl5();