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&quot;Set the DIALOG Form properties...&quot;
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you can also handle the keydown event to capture<br />
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<pre><code id="code-20-34974935-1">    Private Sub Form1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown

        If e.KeyCode = Keys.Escape Then Me.Close()
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you can also handle the keydown event to capture



    Private Sub Form1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown

        If e.KeyCode = Keys.Escape Then Me.Close()
    End Sub

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I was unable to get the Subroutine to work (it appears sometimes my DataGridView captures the keypresses), but the AcceptButton/CancelButton solved my problem. &nbsp;Thanks so much!!
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I was unable to get the Subroutine to work (it appears sometimes my DataGridView captures the keypresses), but the AcceptButton/CancelButton solved my problem.  Thanks so much!!

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I'm converting an old app to VB.Net and have many dialog boxes. &nbsp;How do you enable the ESC key to close a dialog box?
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I'm converting an old app to VB.Net and have many dialog boxes.  How do you enable the ESC key to close a dialog box?

How to Enable ESC to close a dialog box in VB.net

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented programming language implemented on the .NET framework, but also supported on other platforms such as Mono and Silverlight. Microsoft launched VB.NET as the successor to the Visual Basic language. Though it is similar in syntax to  Visual Basic pre-2002, it is not the same technology,