Quick tip: Filtering input to a TextBox control

posted by  hjwin (10)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Sometimes, it's the little things that take the longest to work out, so I thought I'd start a "Quick tips" series.  Quick tips are intended to be short and solve a very specific issue.I was talking with Mark Prentice today and we were looking at filtering a TextBox control so that it only accepted numeric characters.  As it works out, this is a very easy thing to do with the .NET Compact Framework.To filter input that is entered into a TextBox, we need to implement a KeyPress event handler.  When you en