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How to Capture Enter Key or Return Key as Tab in Windows Form

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Monday, February 6, 2012 - 08:36
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Visual Basic .NET
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By default VB.NET and C# does not listen on the enter key or return key when you press your keyboard. Those it will not move your cursor to the next control like text box. Instead a tab key is used to navigate to other control in your windows form.

A simple ProcessCmdKey Overrides function is necessary to capture this event. Allowing you to use the Tab key as the enter/return key equivalent.

Here’s the code:

  1.     Protected Overrides Function ProcessCmdKey(ByRef msg As System.Windows.Forms.Message, ByVal keyData As System.Windows.Forms.Keys) As Boolean
  2.         Select Case msg.WParam.ToInt32()
  3.             Case 13 ' enter Key 
  4.                 If TypeOf Me.ActiveControl Is TextBox Then
  5.                     SendKeys.Send("{Tab}")
  6.                     Return True
  7.                 End If
  8.         End Select
  9.         Return MyBase.ProcessCmdKey(msg, keyData)
  10.     End Function 'ProcessCmdKey

The code above also work on VB.NET 2008.

Download Code: 
enterkey.zip
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enter key
return key
tab key
windows form event
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Comments

Submitted by Kaustubh Sinnarkar on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 02:10

Sendkeys.send is less reliable
I would prefer
me.selectnextcontrol(sender,true,true,true,true)

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