You have to implement the KeyPress event for you textbox, like:
http://www.dotnetspider.co
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I have a form with a few TextBoxes on it. I want to restrict the user input to just letters and numbers. I don't want to allow characters such as : ~!@#$%^&*()_+-=:";'<>?,./ to be entered - as in I don't even want the characters to show up in the textbox when the user tries to type them.
How can I do this?
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You have to implement the KeyPress event for you textbox, like:
http://www.dotnetspider.co
Handle the KeyDown & KeyPress events. This example stops anything but numbers from being entered:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/
Go to the TextBox, double click on KeyPress event from Property Pane.
Add the code inside the first {}.
private void textBox1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
// Check for the flag being set in the KeyDown event.
if (!Char.IsLetterOrDigit(e.K
{
// Stop the character from being entered into the control since it is non-numerical.
e.Handled = true;
}
}
Great anwsers guys, but I have a one further question of clarification before we wrap this up. Attached is my event hander. The current code is not allowing spaces or periods to be entered. I need to allow spaces in the textbox titled "tbBlastMonitorName", and I need to allow periods in the textbox titled "tbBlastMonitorIP".
Thanks
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by: P1ST0LPETEPosted on 2009-08-14 at 11:53:23ID: 25101200
Forgot to mention that this is a windows application - not a .net web application. Not sure if that matters, but.....