Tag Archives: TextBox

Make Ctrl+A select all of the text in a TextBox in C#

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Rod Stephens

Often it’s convenient for the user to be able to press Ctrl+A to select all of the text in the TextBox that has the focus. Strangely that’s not the default behavior for the TextBox. Perhaps the TextBox doesn’t handle Ctrl+A … Continue reading →

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Make a TextBox with auto-complete in C#

Posted on May 18, 2017 by RodStephens

It’s not too hard to make a TextBox provide an auto-complete feature. In fact, the TextBox control offers three auto-complete styles. This example demonstrates those styles. To provide auto-complete, you need to set the following three TextBox properties. AutoCompleteMode – … Continue reading →

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Remove a TextBox control’s context menu in C#

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Rod Stephens

Normally a TextBox control has a context menu that appears when you right-click it, but what if you don’t want that context menu? I mean, really. Am I required to have “Show Unicode control characters” and “Open IME” on every … Continue reading →

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Make a TextBox convert text into proper case in C#

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Rod Stephens

The example Convert a string to proper case (title case) in C# uses a CultureInfo object’s TextInfo property to convert text into proper case (or title case). There are a couple of tricks and potential problems that you need to … Continue reading →

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Set tab positions inside a ListBox or TextBox in C#

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Rod Stephens

This example demonstrates three methods for aligning values in columns, two of which set tab positions in a ListBox or TextBox. To set tabs in a ListBox, you need to set the control’s UseCustomTabOffsets property to true. Then get the … Continue reading →