Textbox select all content when tabbed

[Kenny]

I have two textboxes in my windows form. When i switch between the
textboxes by using the tab-button, i want the content of the next
textbox to be completely selected so that i can start typing it over
right away. How can i do this?

All help appreciated.

[CT]

Add the following text to the TextBox.Enter event:

TextBox.SelectAll()

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Carsten Thomsen
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"Kenny" <ge*******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I have two textboxes in my windows form. When i switch between the
textboxes by using the tab-button, i want the content of the next
textbox to be completely selected so that i can start typing it over
right away. How can i do this?

All help appreciated.

[Armin Zingler]

"Kenny" <ge*******@hotmail.com> schrieb

I have two textboxes in my windows form. When i switch between
the textboxes by using the tab-button, i want the content of the
next textbox to be completely selected so that i can start typing it
over right away. How can i do this?

In the Enter event:

directcast(sender, textbox).selectall

You can use the same procedure to handle the Enter event of both textboxes.

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* ge*******@hotmail.com (Kenny) scripsit:

I have two textboxes in my windows form. When i switch between the
textboxes by using the tab-button, i want the content of the next
textbox to be completely selected so that i can start typing it over
right away. How can i do this?

That's the default behavior, at least on Windows XP Professional.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[CT]

Try entering and deleting the text in a text box and tab to and from it,
then it won't auto-select the entire text.

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Carsten Thomsen
Enterprise Development with VS .NET, UML, and MSF
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=105
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* ge*******@hotmail.com (Kenny) scripsit:

I have two textboxes in my windows form. When i switch between the
textboxes by using the tab-button, i want the content of the next
textbox to be completely selected so that i can start typing it over
right away. How can i do this?

That's the default behavior, at least on Windows XP Professional.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "CT" <ca******@spammersgoawaydotnetservices.biz> scripsit:

Try entering and deleting the text in a text box and tab to and from it,
then it won't auto-select the entire text.

Thank you for making me aware of that. This will occur if you changed
the text of the textbox.

Solution: Add a handler to the textbox's 'GocFocus' event (you will
have to create this handler yourself because it's not listed in the
list of available events) and enter this code:

\\\
DirectCast(sender, TextBox).SelectAll()
///

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[Kenny]

"CT" <ca******@spammersgoawaydotnetservices.biz> wrote in message news:<#k**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...

Add the following text to the TextBox.Enter event:

TextBox.SelectAll()

--
Carsten Thomsen

Thx!