Mask in a TextBox

[Alberto]

Can I set a mask to a TextBox? How?

Thank you very much

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Alberto,

You can't do this with the TextBox now. However, .NET 2.0 will
introduce a MaskedTextBox control which you can use.

For .NET 1.1, you will have to create a textbox and hook into the change
events to determine whether or not the text matches the mask.

Hope this helps.

 

[bell]

You might want to look at DataBinding too. Combining the Format and Parse
events can allow a flexibility to the behaviour of a TextBox. Ex: You can
easily add a dollar sign to the display of a float to make it a currency
using Format.

And you should be able to use the parse event to control what is actually
stored in your bound class.

gdbj