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Edit Controls - Beginners

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Title / Updated Author Score  
CFilterEdit: Use Regular Expressions to Filter Your Input
Updated: 8 Sep 2009  
The definitive approach to filtering input text. Includes configurable error display.
C++ (VC7.1), Windows (Win2K, WinXP), Visual Studio (VS.NET2003), MFC, Dev
Ben Hanson 4.58
Using the CEdit control
Updated: 23 Mar 2001  
An entry level tutorial on using the CEdit control.
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
Wolfram Steinke 4.46
Auto-complete edit and combo, without Platform SDK
Updated: 26 Feb 2002  
How to enable file system and URL auto-complete for edit controls and combo-boxes, without downloading the entire Platform SDK
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev
Chris Losinger 4.14
Editing Ribbon Bar Images
Updated: 30 Apr 2009  
If you’ve installed the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack or upgraded to Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, you may already be working with the new ribbon bar control. This control provides many new user-interface elements and cool new images. However, if you are like many people, you may have wondered
C++, Windows, MFC
Jonathan Wood 3.67
How To Make an AutoSizeTextBox
Updated: 13 Oct 2008  
How to size a TextBox to fit its contents
VB.NET 3.5, Design
saratan60 1.60
How to add Click Event on TextBox - Unedited
Updated: 3 Jan 2008  
How to add Click Event on TextBox
VB (VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, VB 6)
imran afzal 1.50

Edit Controls - General

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Title / Updated Author Score  
XSL Editor Control
Updated: 13 Jun 2009  
A basic WinForms XSL editor control
C# (C# 2.0), XML, XSLT, Windows, .NET (.NET 2.0), WinForms, Dev
Geoff Hudik 5.00
Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor)
Updated: 5 Oct 2009  
AvalonEdit is an extensible Open-Source text editor with support for syntax highlighting and folding.
C# 3.0, C# 4.0.NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, XAML, WPF, Dev
Daniel Grunwald 4.90
XEditPrompt - CEdit-derived control with web-like prompt
Updated: 20 Jul 2007  
XEditPrompt implements an edit control with built-in prompt and text color, just like you see on web pages.
VC6, VC8.0WinXP, Vista, MFC, VS2005, Dev
Hans Dietrich 4.82
Using ICSharpCode.TextEditor
Updated: 12 Nov 2008  
Use TextEditorControl to put a syntax-highlighting editor in your application.
C# (C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5), WinForms, Dev
Qwertie 4.81
CRulerRichEditCtrl - a complete RTF mini-editor
Updated: 17 May 2005  
A complete mini-editor with a formatting toolbar and a ruler with editable tab-positions.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
Johan Rosengren 4.81
SpellEdit
Updated: 25 Apr 2004  
A CEdit control with a spell checker and thesaurus.
VC7, VC7.1Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
SteveKing 4.81
Inserting images into a RichTextBox control (the OLE way)
Updated: 1 Nov 2005  
This article shows how you can insert images, controls and ActiveX objects into a .NET RichTextBox control by using the OLE way. There are several samples about how it could be done, but all of them are in C++ and I needed it for managed code (C#).
C#, Windows, .NET 1.1VS.NET2003, Dev
Oscar Londono 4.81
CodeBox for Windows Forms
Updated: 12 Nov 2009  
A RichTextBox for Windows Forms that supports flexible highlighting and background coloring.
C#, Windows, .NET, WinForms, Dev
KenJohnson 4.81
A User-Searchable TextBox, RichTextBox, ListView, and TreeView in C#
Updated: 18 Aug 2006  
A lightweight class library that extends the Framework's most popular editor controls to include search and other basic functionality.
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, WinForms, Dev
Jim Blackler 4.80
Using Scintilla for syntax coloring in MFC
Updated: 29 Jun 2003  
The article describes how to use the scintilla control in a MFC application to display syntax coloring information
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
toffy 4.80
A Windows Forms based text editor with HTML output
Updated: 25 Nov 2006  
A Windows Forms based text editor with HTML output, implemented with a browser control in edit mode.
C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0VS2005, Dev
kevin delafield 4.79
Zeta HTML Edit Control - Unedited
Updated: 18 Nov 2009  
A small wrapper class around the Windows Forms 2.0 WebBrowser control
C#, .NET (.NET 2.0), WinForms, Dev
Uwe Keim 4.79
Multiline Hyper Edit Control
Updated: 31 Aug 2004  
A multiline hyper edit control derived from CEdit.
VC6WinXP, MFC, STL, Dev
XanderXP 4.78
HTML editor for VC++ 6.0
Updated: 27 Dec 2004  
HTML editing control for VC++ 6.0 equivalent to MFC7 CHtmlEditCtrlBase class.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
Irek Zielinski 4.78
Crystal Edit - syntax coloring text editor
Updated: 30 Jan 2000  
A set of classes that provide an expandable framework for the syntax coloring text editor.
VC6, MFC, Dev
Andrei Stcherbatchenko 4.77
Insert Plain Text and Images into RichTextBox at Runtime
Updated: 14 Jul 2003  
This article describes how to programmatically insert text and images into a RichTextBox at runtime.
C#, Windows, .NET 1.0, Dev
Khendys Gordon 4.76
Tile Editor Control
Updated: 29 May 2008  
A control to edit maps or small pictures in tile form.
C#, Windows, .NET, GDI+, Dev
Ted John 4.74
File Searcher Edit Control with Browse Button
Updated: 13 Dec 2002  
A control that combines an edit control for entering a file or directory name, and a browse button that brings up a dialog for choosing a file or folder.
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
PJ Arends 4.71
Autocomplection in RichEdit Control
Updated: 11 Jul 2002  
A control that allows to use an autocomplection feature in RichEdit controls as the one in Visual Studio
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
Paolo Vernazza 4.71
Syntax highlighting textbox written in C#
Updated: 13 Jul 2005  
This article describes the code of a RichTextBox that knows how to highlight parts of the text and provide auto-completion.
C#.NET 1.1, Win2K, WinMobile2003VS.NET2003, Dev
Uri Guy 4.69
Linked TextBox
Updated: 7 Sep 2009  
How to make the textbox act as a hyperlink when the Control key is pressed.
C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, Windows, .NET, Dev
Paw Jershauge 4.69
Using Windowless RichEdit Controls
Updated: 10 Oct 2006  
How to use the windowless RichEdit control, one of Microsoft's less well-documented APIs.
VC7, VC8.0Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev
David Kinder 4.67
Extended NumericUpDown control
Updated: 12 Nov 2008  
An extended NumericUpDown control with better focus and mouse wheel management.
VB (VB 8.0), C# 2.0, .NET (.NET 2.0), WinForms, Dev, Design
Claudio Nicora 4.67
CUltraPadWnd - A Simple Syntax Coloring Control Based on the MFC CWnd Class
Updated: 16 Aug 2008  
An article on a simple syntax coloring control
C++, Windows, MFC, Dev
darkoman 4.66
A Rich Edit Control That Displays Bitmaps and Other OLE Objects
Updated: 9 Feb 2005  
COleRichEditCtrl will display RTF text as well as bitmaps, video clips, Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, and any other kind of OLE objects.
VC6Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
Mike O'Neill 4.66
Nullable Masked Edit, and a Better Masked Edit Also!
Updated: 22 Apr 2006  
A nullable masked edit control based on the .NET 2.0 MaskedTextBox.
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev
Marc Clifton 4.64
Enabling syntax highlighting in a RichTextBox
Updated: 14 Jun 2005  
An article on how to enable syntax highlighting in a RichTextBox.
C#.NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXPVS2005, Dev
Patrik Svensson 4.63
Validating Edit Controls
Updated: 22 Feb 2004  
The classes presented in this article provide benefits for the most popular types of data that may be entered.
C#, Windows, .NET 1.0, Dev
Alvaro Mendez 4.62
Brainchild, A syntax coloring edit control
Updated: 16 Jun 2005  
Syntax coloring, multi-level undo/redo editor control.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1Win2K, WinXP, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
Jan van den Baard 4.61
CRichEditControl50W - A VC++ Rich Text Edit 4.1 MFC Control
Updated: 13 Mar 2005  
A simple MFC Rich Edit control using version 4.1 in msftedit.dll.
VC7.1Win2K, WinXP, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
shellraker 4.60
C# TextBox with Outlook 2007-style prompt
Updated: 16 Oct 2006  
An article on creating a prompted textbox in the style of Outlook 2007, IE7, and Firefox 2.0.
C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0, WinForms, VS2005, Dev
Matthew Noonan 4.60
CodeTextBox - another RichTextBox control with syntax highlightning and intellisense
Updated: 8 Sep 2008  
A RichTextBox control with syntax highlightning and intellisense.
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows, .NET, Dev
Tamas Honfi 4.59
Controls-in-controls: A line-numbering edit box
Updated: 11 May 2004  
A line-numbering edit control
VC6Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
Johan Rosengren 4.57
CueProvider
Updated: 24 Jul 2008  
A lightweight class that lets you add cues to a TextBox.
C#, Windows, .NET, Dev
Ravi Bhavnani 4.54
TextBoxHint
Updated: 11 Mar 2009  
Standard .NET TextBox control with three additional properties that allow the developer to add a 'hint' to the text...sort of like a tooltip but always visible while the control is empty.
VB, Windows, .NETVS2005, Dev
Elkay 4.53
Secure Edit Control
Updated: 28 May 2003  
Secure Edit controls are resistant to password revealers.
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
Dominik Reichl 4.51
CAutoRichEditCtrl - automate rich edit formatting and RTF handling
Updated: 11 Feb 2003  
A CRichEditCtrl derived class to handle formatting quickly.
VC6, MFC, Dev
Jeremy Iverson 4.50
AlphaBlendTextBox - A transparent/translucent textbox for .NET
Updated: 23 Jun 2003  
A transparent/translucent textbox for .NET
C#, VB.NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003VS.NET2003, Dev
Bob Bradley 4.50
iTunes like Find Edit Control
Updated: 3 Aug 2006  
Edit Control with Button similar to iTunes Find Edit Control
C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev
Gautam Jain 4.49
CEditLog - fast logging into an edit control with cout
Updated: 1 Nov 2003  
Use an edit control for logging messages and redirect cout
VC6, VC7.1, MFC, STL, VS.NET2003, Dev
Daniel Lohmann 4.48
Links with arbitrary text in a RichTextBox
Updated: 2 Jan 2005  
An extended RichTextBox that allows to enter links not starting with one of the standard protocols.
C#.NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, WinForms, VS.NET2003, Dev
mav.northwind 4.46
A UITypeEditor for easy editing of flag enum properties in the property browser
Updated: 14 Apr 2006  
A UITypeEditor for easy editing of flag enum properties in the property browser.
C#.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Visual Studio, Dev
LogicNP 4.45
HyperEdit Control
Updated: 9 Oct 2008  
CEdit-derived Hyperlink control, so user can edit hyperlinks
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
Paul S. Vickery 4.44
An extended RichTextBox to save and load "HTML lite" files
Updated: 5 Dec 2005  
This control provides a method to save and load HTML files directly, avoiding the use of RTF codes.
C#, Windows, .NET 1.1VS.NET2003, Dev
Oscar Londono 4.44
Simple Numeric TextBox
Updated: 9 Nov 2008  
A WinForms TextBox that only accepts digits.
C#, .NET (.NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS2008), WinForms
DaveyM69 4.44
CDropEdit
Updated: 26 Feb 2002  
Drag and drop files onto a CEdit, instead of using a file open dialog.
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
Chris Losinger 4.43
Control within a control & Subclassing with a cool example
Updated: 29 Aug 2005  
A list control displaying directories and files as on typing the path in your Rich Edit control and a subclassed Color256 dialog.
VC6Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
Naren Neelamegam 4.41
Hex Editor (OCX Control)
Updated: 19 Dec 2005  
OCX control enabling data editing in HEX format.
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
Eugene Pavlov 4.40
Advanced Text Editor with Ruler
Updated: 20 Mar 2008  
Extending RichTextBox with ruler and much more
C# (C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5)
Aleksei Krassovskikh 4.40
Hilite Edit View
Updated: 5 Jun 2005  
A CEditView derived class that highlights the caret line.
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
Yi Yang 4.38
Show All TextBox Text After Resize
Updated: 16 Sep 2008  
If a TextBox is wide enough to show all text, this method ensures it is visible after a resize.
C# (C# 2.0), VB (VB 8.0), Windows, .NET, Dev
hayes.adrian 4.38
DOSKey-like Control
Updated: 14 Dec 2007  
A DOSKey like Windows control with persistent MRU history
C#, Windows (WinXP), .NET (.NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS2005), Dev
Todd Howard 4.37
A NumberPicker Control
Updated: 24 Jan 2006  
This article presents a control that allows for easy number entering.
C#, Windows, .NET 1.1VS.NET2003, Dev
Bram Pellens 4.35
Auto-Completion Edit Control
Updated: 16 Jul 2001  
An edit control that provides auto-completion functionality for small data sets.
VC6Win2K, MFC, STL, Dev
James R. Twine 4.35
PasswordBox: A Better Way to Enter Passwords
Updated: 17 Mar 2003  
A better way to enter passwords.
C#.NET 1.0, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, Dev
Brian Welsh 4.34
Universal enumeration editor control
Updated: 27 Dec 2004  
ASP.NET and WinForms control for editing any enumeration data type.
C#, HTML, VC7.1, Windows, .NET 1.1, ASP.NET, WinForms, WebForms, VS.NET2003, Dev
Tomas Petricek 4.33
WinForms controls to develop with the Pfz.Databasing framework
Updated: 7 Oct 2009  
Really easy to use framework capable of generating the right controls dynamically for each data type.
C# 3.0.NET 3.5, WinForms, LINQ, Dev
Paulo Zemek 4.33
A flag editor
Updated: 17 Oct 2002  
This piece of code is the implementation of a simple flags editor. It can be used to edit flags in a property grid.
C#, Windows, .NET 1.0, Dev
Thierry Bouquain 4.33
Colorizing edit control
Updated: 4 Sep 2002  
A colorizing text edit control, with full undo/redo, clipboard support, etc.
VC6Win2K, MFC, STL, Dev
Chris Losinger 4.31
CRichEditCtrl revised
Updated: 2 Apr 2003  
A derived CRichEditCtrl class which focuses on streaming and on the visual aspects of formatting. Also includes the use of the link-formatting.
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
G. Steudtel 4.31
RicherTextBox
Updated: 17 Mar 2008  
User control for .NET 2.0 extending RichTextBox with various formatting options
C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0, Dev
Svetoslav Savov 4.31
ColorTextBox
Updated: 25 Mar 2007  
This article describes ColorTextBox, a customizable User Control which was written completely from scratch and is intended to fill the gap between the TextBox and RichTextBox controls found in the .NET 2.0 library.
C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0, GDI, GDI+, WinForms, VS2005, Dev
Chrisi476 4.29
Persisting Rich Text
Updated: 3 Mar 2006  
Extending the RichTextBox to support form persistance and data binding.
C#, Windows, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, WinForms, SQL 2000, SQL 2005, VS.NET2003, VS2005, DBA, Dev
Declan Brennan 4.28
How to modify a CEdit context menu
Updated: 16 Sep 2001  
A simple way to let your CEdit derived class have a modifiable context menu
VC6Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev
PJ Arends 4.28
Prompting user for values from a CEdit
Updated: 28 Sep 2002  
This article presents a special CEdit, that prompts the user for a value entry
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
Tanzim Husain 4.25
Rapid data entry: An edit box with a history
Updated: 20 Jun 2004  
A way of simplifying rapid data entry
VC6Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
Johan Rosengren 4.25
Redirect the Enter key from a Windows Forms TextBox
Updated: 24 Feb 2006  
A useful trick to customize the comportment of the Enter key in a Windows Forms TextBox control.
C++/CLI, C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev
Jerome RG 4.25
How To Build Multi-control Components when Inheriting from an Existing Control (Intro and TextBox Example)
Updated: 28 Oct 2008  
This article will get you started in building your own multi-control components without using the UserControl class.
C#, .NET, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, WinForms
Adrian Pasik 4.25
Text Editor: The Basic of Basics
Updated: 10 May 2009  
This is a simple text editor based on Edit control
C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0), C++/CLI, C
AlexShag 4.25
Themed RichTextBox - A RichTextBox with XP-styled borders
Updated: 11 Oct 2006  
An article about XP-theming.
C#.NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, WinXPVS.NET2003, VS2005, Dev
Bernhard Elbl 4.23
Controls-in-controls: An edit box with an icon
Updated: 16 Jun 2004  
Adding controls to a CEdit, an edit box with an icon
VC6Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev
Johan Rosengren 4.22
CEditMoeda
Updated: 22 Oct 2002  
A CEdit enhancement for efficient currency capturing.
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
Augusto Maia 4.20
TNumEditBox: A Numeric Edit Control with ContextMenu in C# Applications
Updated: 26 Nov 2008  
A well used numeric edit control supporting mouse context menu and keyboard input
C# 2.0.NET 2.0VS2005, Dev
HU Lihui 4.20
Customizing the Common Find/Replace Dialog in RichEdit View
Updated: 1 Apr 2001  
This article explains how to customize the standard Find/Replace Dialog in RichEdit view.
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
Kalai Kandasamy 4.19
Numbering lines of RichTextBox in .NET 2.0
Updated: 3 Nov 2005  
The standard RichTextBox does not allow numbering of lines. This user control does.
C#, Windows, .NET 2.0, WinForms, VS2005, Dev
Petr Minarik 4.18
Alpha Blended (Transparent Capable) TextBox and RichTextBox
Updated: 24 Feb 2006  
This article shows how to make a transparent/translucent TextBox and RichTextBox.
C#, Windows, .NET 1.1, GDI+, WinForms, VS.NET2003, Dev
Aaron Dilliard 4.16
A compact filename edit control
Updated: 4 Feb 2003  
An edit control that encapsulates compacting of filenames
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
Martyn Pearson 4.14
CEdit & CStatic Transparency Control
Updated: 6 Oct 2001  
This acticle explain how to apply transparency on CEdit and CStatic Controls
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
DCUtility 4.13
# Nullable DateEdit Control
Updated: 15 Jun 2003  
A Nullable C# DateEdit Control
C#, Windows, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Dev
Oscar Bowyer 4.13
Dim Edit Control
Updated: 28 Aug 2001  
An edit control that can provide visual cues in its text area.
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
James R. Twine 4.12
Painless streaming of rich text to/from CRichEditCtrl
Updated: 29 Jan 2002  
An article detailing the method of streaming RTF into and out of CRichEditCtrl as used by the RichEdit DocView architecture.
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
Paul Maddox 4.12
Calculating a Rich Edit Control Minimum Size
Updated: 1 Dec 1999  
VC6, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev
Thales P. Carvalho 4.12
TextBoxRegex - a text box with data validation
Updated: 11 Apr 2007  
An enhanced text box control with powerful data validation capabilities.
C#, Windows, .NET 1.1VS.NET2003, Dev
chopeen 4.11
Use IRichEditOle from C#
Updated: 13 Jul 2003  
Take control of the OLE objects embedded inside a .NET RichTextBox
C#, Windows, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1VS.NET2003, Dev
John Fisher 4.11
A CHexEdit Control - For HEX and DEC number input
Updated: 15 Aug 2005  
An article on how to write an Edit control used for HEX and DEC number input.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
Luo Pei'en 4.07
A Ready Made Text Entry Dialog
Updated: 26 Jan 2002  
An article providing a ready made class for simple user input of a string via a prompt dialog - no dialog templates necessary!
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
Andrew Peace 4.06
A chat control based on the Rich Edit control
Updated: 6 Dec 2003  
Using the Rich Edit control as a chat window.
VC6Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
Rob Manderson 4.06
Syntax colorizing with Speller engine using TOM and CSAPI
Updated: 12 Nov 2004  
Syntax colorizing with Speller engine using TOM and CSAPI.
VC6, MFC, Dev
William Hennebois 4.02
Changing the background color of a read-only edit control
Updated: 18 Jan 2005  
An article on very easily changing the color of a read-only edit control.
VC6WinXP, MFC, Dev
Kevin Bond 4.01
Richer RichTextBox (Part 2)
Updated: 13 Jan 2006  
An article on extending the RichTextBox class in C#.
C#, Windows, .NET 1.1VS.NET2003, Dev
Nikola Stepan 4.00
CRichEditCtrl and a popup menu
Updated: 15 Feb 2002  
Providing a popup menu for the CRichEditCtrl
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
bryce 3.98
DDXFolder & CChooseDirDlg v1.24
Updated: 3 Mar 2000  
A freeware DDX routine for selecting a Directory / Folder.
VC6, MFC, Dev
PJ Naughter 3.94
Numeric Edit Control
Updated: 25 Apr 2003  
A TextBox control that validates different numeric types.
C#.NET 1.0, Win2K, WinXP, Dev
Oscar Bowyer 3.92
See through Rich Edit control
Updated: 8 Aug 2005  
This article discribes how to give a see through look to your Rich Edit control.
VC7.1WinXP, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
Amro Fawzy 3.89
C# MaskedEdit Control
Updated: 26 Apr 2003  
C# MaskedEdit Control similiar to the MS Access masked edit control
C#, Windows, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Dev
Oscar Bowyer 3.89
HtmlEditor
Updated: 2 Jun 2009  
A one-class, non-MSHTML, full WYSIWYG HTML editor.
Javascript, C# 2.0.NET 2.0, WinForms, Dev
Fco. Javier Marin 3.88
Lockable Edit and ComboBox Controls
Updated: 2 Dec 2004  
An article describing how to make the CEdit and CComboBox classes better for enabling/disabling.
VC7.1WinXP, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
BlackDice 3.87
A Padded Rich Text Box Subclass
Updated: 15 May 2008  
A subclass which adds new display properties to a rich text box control.
C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio, Dev
Tony Zackin 3.87
Numeric TextBox : Allow your users to enter numeric data the easy way
Updated: 20 Jun 2004  
A TextBox control for numeric input, with the ability to set precision, scale (when focused or not)
C#, Windows, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Visual Studio, Dev
Hannes Decorte 3.81
Line Numbering of RichTextBox in .NET 2.0
Updated: 26 Jan 2007  
Line numbering of a RichTextBox control using PictureBox control painting.
VB, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, GDI+, Dev
Michael Elly 3.80
Decimal number support for your controls
Updated: 18 Nov 2007  
The WTL way of adding number support to your controls.
C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, WTL, Dev
Alexander Uckun 3.80
A Calculator Control Box
Updated: 25 Nov 2005  
A Calculator Control Box which can be used instead of a text box for numeric input.
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev
H. S. Masud 3.79
Localized numeric editbox
Updated: 11 Aug 2003  
An article on extending edit box control
VC6, VC7, VC7.1Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
Nikolai Serdiuk 3.79
Fast HTML syntax highlighting with the Rich Edit control
Updated: 27 Mar 2006  
An article on fast HTML syntax highlighting using a rich edit control (CRichEditCtrl).
VC6, VC7, VC7.1Win2K, WinXP, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
Ziv G 3.79
Masked C# TextBox Control
Updated: 21 Jan 2004  
A control that can be used for date, IP address, phone number, SSN, digit and decimal format input
C#, Windows, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1VS.NET2003, Dev
Jibin Pan 3.78
Changing the style of an edit control
Updated: 29 Mar 2008  
This article will tell you an easy way to change the style of an edit control.
VC6Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
guanghui wu 3.75
tinyMCE HTML editor in .NET WindowsForms - Unedited
Updated: 7 Jul 2008  
tinyMCE WYSIWYG HTML editor in .NET WindowsForms
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows, WinForms, Dev
Ondra Spilka 3.75
DataGridView control with ListBox - Unedited
Updated: 7 Mar 2008  
In this article I have discussed how to develop a control that inheriting standard features of DataGridView and add additional features to that control. By locking this NewDataGridView control you will be able to develop a DataGridView control adding many more features as you wish.
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS2005)
Manjula Wickramathunga 3.71
HTML syntax highlighting with the Rich Edit control
Updated: 18 Apr 2002  
An extension to CRichEditCtrl to illustrate simple syntax highlighting
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev
Derek Lakin 3.67
Avoiding EN_CHANGE notifications
Updated: 30 Jun 2008  
Handling complex control interactions when edit controls are involved can lead to problems when EN_CHANGE notifications are generated by the application actually changing the control values. To avoid having to handle EN_CHANGE notifications from CEdit and CRichEdit, this article shows how to derive
C++, Windows, MFC, Dev
Joseph M. Newcomer 3.61
Richer RichTextBox (Part 1)
Updated: 27 Oct 2005  
An article on extending the RichTextBox class in C#.
C#, Windows, .NET 1.1VS.NET2003, Dev
Nikola Stepan 3.59
PercentageUpDown Control
Updated: 29 Jun 2009  
Specialized version of the NumericUpDown control for entering and displaying percentage values.
VB, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, WinForms, Dev
Pinx 3.57
Hex Edit Control
Updated: 26 Jun 2001  
An Hex Editing control that switches between plain text and HEX modes (using RICHED20.DLL)
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
philip andrew 3.56
Numeric Edit Box
Updated: 14 Sep 2004  
An article on building a validating numeric entry control.
C#.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, WinXPVS.NET2003, Dev
Horia Tudosie 3.55
Extend the Textbox Control to Validate Against Regular Expressions
Updated: 31 Jan 2007  
This article describes an approach to validating text box entries against a regular expression
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev
salysle 3.53
Using RichEditCtrl to display formatted logs
Updated: 28 Oct 2005  
A simple demo to show you how to use the standard RichEditCtrl to print formatted text to a message/log window.
VC7.1, Windows, .NET 1.1, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
typke 3.51
TabText
Updated: 10 Jul 2006  
TabText is a text-editor with tab-pages, like Excel.
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, GDI+, Dev
Compenkie 3.47
IronTextBox2
Updated: 20 Jun 2008  
A CLI control for IronPython 2.0B2+.
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Python (IronPython), Dev
JoeSox 3.46
A smart edit and linked slider control
Updated: 2 Feb 2000  
An edit control for entering text, numbers, hexadecimal or floating point values, and which can be linked to a slider control
VC6, MFC, Dev
Rick York 3.38
IP-Address TextBox
Updated: 31 Aug 2003  
TextBox derived class to enter IP addresses
C#.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003VS.NET2003, Dev
RJ2 3.35
Controlling the Length of a RichTextBox in C#
Updated: 11 Mar 2009  
This technique preserves RTF formatting when removing text from a RichTextBox control.
C#, Windows, .NET, WinForms, Dev
mikey222 3.33
Enhanced rich edit control
Updated: 13 Sep 2003  
A rich edit control with lots of extra features
VC6, Windows, MFC, Dev
Filomela 3.31
Edit Microsoft Word Document From Your Application
Updated: 14 May 2009  
Create & edit Microsoft Word document from Windows application Form by using C#
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Office
Rudra Sankar 3.29
Animated Emoticons like those in MSN Messenger
Updated: 16 May 2005  
How to create a RichEdit control to display animated emoticons like MSN Messenger's.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0Win2K, WinXP, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
dTianx 3.26
PropertyGrid Data Formatting
Updated: 29 Dec 2005  
This article describes how to implement password fields and formatted data input fields within the .NET PropertyGrid control.
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev
kstoj 3.07
A phone/fax field server control with built-in auto-tab functionality
Updated: 14 Nov 2006  
A phone/fax field server control with built-in auto-tab functionality.
C#, Javascript, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev
Jonathan Awotwi 3.00
Language Input Mode (mainly for hebrew programmers)
Updated: 10 May 2003  
How to adjust the input in regard to the desired language mode
VC6, VC7, VC7.1Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
moshe masas 2.94
History Edit Control
Updated: 17 Jan 2000  
CEdit derived control that lets you to display a scrolling text history
VC6, MFC, Dev
Ravi Bhavnani 2.84
A C# Scrolling Text Control
Updated: 27 Feb 2003  
This article shows you how to create a scrolling text/scrolling marquee control in C#.
C#.NET 1.0, WinXP, Dev
Manster 2.79
CEditFlat - flat style edit control
Updated: 25 Nov 1999  
VC6, MFC, Dev
Avtukhov Roman 2.78
Yet Another Custom Currency Box
Updated: 23 May 2009  
Control that only allows numeric inputs
C#, Windows, .NET 2.0VS2008, Dev
Juan Manuel Elosegui 2.72
Extended RichTextBox - Unedited
Updated: 8 Nov 2008  
Rich Text Box control with built in options
VB (VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, VB 6), .NET (.NET 2.0), WinForms, Dev
R. Syed 2.71
A focus-sensitive EditBox Class
Updated: 19 May 2003  
Change the back color of an edit box when it gets the focus, and back to another color when focus is lost
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
DavidRipple 2.69
InputBox in C#
Updated: 21 Apr 2005  
This is owner's own InputBox in C#, with only one function. So this InputBox do not inherit from a WinForm.
C#, .NET, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, WinForms, Dev
hestol 2.64
Quick positioning of the caret at the end of the text
Updated: 9 Aug 2002  
Quickly position the caret at the end of edit control text...
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev
Botticelli 2.59
Smart Auto-Complete (and Easy )
Updated: 29 Jun 2003  
A Edit that Automatically completes your words
C++/CLI, VC6, VC7, .NET, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
Vinicius Jarina 2.50
How to make a TextBox/RichTextBox transparent
Updated: 19 Nov 2004  
This article shows how to create transparent TextBox control in C#.
C#.NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXPVS.NET2003, Dev
dudubravo 2.50
Mobile numeric up/down control
Updated: 19 May 2008  
A simple, re-usable, mobile numeric up/down control that supports decimal places, and min/max.
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET CF, Mobile, Dev
chiznatworth 2.50
A Padded Text Box Control
Updated: 28 Mar 2007  
A user control which adds a new property to a rich text box control
C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio, Dev
Tony Zackin 2.33
Log Edit Demo
Updated: 8 Feb 2008  
A log control window
C++ (VC6), Windows, MFC, Dev, Design
Ranojay 2.33
Autocomplete Textbox Control
Updated: 26 Jan 2004  
A textbox control that will complete what the user types. It allows the user to choose what to remember for autocompletion.
C#, Windows, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1VS.NET2003, Dev
kelly123 2.31
Extended Use of .NET RichControl Class - C# CLabel 1.0beta
Updated: 20 Sep 2000  
A fully stocked owner drawn RichControl class
C#, VC7.NET 1.0, Win2K, Visual Studio, Dev
Norm .net 2.19
HTML Text Box Control
Updated: 7 Sep 2006  
A control that formats text in HTML.
VB, .NET, WinXPVS.NET2003, VS2005, Dev
iwdu150 2.14
IpBox in C# for beginners
Updated: 9 May 2005  
A simple way to create an IP box.
C#, .NET, WinXP, Visual Studio, Dev
Mervick 2.11
Multilingual TextBox
Updated: 7 Jul 2005  
This textbox enables us to write text in diffrent languages. It supports Unicode text.
C#.NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003VS.NET2003, Dev
mahesh.mishra 1.67
A Textbox With a Single Border Line
Updated: 4 May 2006  
How to create a textbox with a sinle border line.
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev
ashwani_singh 1.55
Formatting your numbers
Updated: 21 Oct 2002  
Now it is simple to format your numbers.
C#.NET 1.0, Win2K, WinXP, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Dev
Esteves 1.45
Automatically put decimal for currency format in TextBox when typing
Updated: 18 Nov 2004  
Automatically put decimal for currency format in TextBox when typing.
C#, Windows, .NET 1.1VS.NET2003, Dev
gitansu 1.36
DevExpress DateEdit: How do I change the dropdown views between Dates - Months - Years ? - Unedited
Updated: 16 Nov 2009  
Attn: DevExpress Components users Sir,    I just want to know is there similar functionality in DevExpress DateEdit Control like M$ DataTimePicker Control? When in runtime, A M$ Datetimepicker has special shortcut-keys (automatically) like Ctrl + Arrows keys (or Ctrl + Plus/Minus keys) to c
VB 9.0
Genuinekozaw  
DevExpress DateEdit: How do I change the dropdown views between Dates - Months - Years ? - Unedited
Updated: 17 Nov 2009  
Since this is a paying component you'd be better off asking here:http://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/ They have a very good support team there and usually you'll get an answer within 24hours. As to your question itself, I happen to use there components and the ctrl + arrow keys do work. Both wh
VB 9.0
Tom Deketelaere  
Dragged into a form - Unedited
Updated: 17 Nov 2009  
Dragged a custom control into a form , I want to give a property of the custom control load multiple values, how can I do?Dragged into a form in a custom control before or after what the property would trigger? code like this: public partial class MyControl : System.Windows.Forms.TextBox{publi
C#, .NET
lenmentree  
Dragged into a form - Unedited
Updated: 17 Nov 2009  
What do you mean when you say "I want to give a property of the custom control load multiple values" ? Are you saying you want to set a property of the custom control? Please provide more details, including code sample to show us what the custom control does.
C#, .NET
Mark Miller  

Edit Controls - Masked and Validating controls

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Title / Updated Author Score  
MS Outlook style date edit control/date picker
Updated: 26 Jan 2002  
Simulates the MS Outlook date edit/picker control.
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
Matt Gullett 4.91
Validating Edit Controls
Updated: 21 Mar 2004  
CEdit-derived classes which validate the most popular types of data input.
VC6, Windows, MFC, Dev
Alvaro Mendez 4.70
CEdit Enhancement
Updated: 31 Jan 2001  
A CEdit enhancement for efficient data capturing.
VC6, MFC, Dev
Daniel Zuppinger 4.68
SP Numeric Edit Control
Updated: 16 Nov 2005  
Masked numeric edit ActiveX control.
VC7, VC7.1Win2K, WinXP, MFC, ATL, COM, VS.NET2003, Dev
Sergei_VP 4.64
CSecureEditEx - A More Secure Edit Control
Updated: 17 Apr 2005  
CSecureEditEx controls are resistant to password revealers. Passwords aren't visible in the process memory.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, MFC, VS.NET2003, VS2005, Dev
Dominik Reichl 4.62
A C# Numeric Field Control
Updated: 29 Apr 2008  
An abstract base for a numeric fielded control.
C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio, Dev
mid=5741 4.60
MAC address edit control
Updated: 16 Feb 2007  
CMACAddrEdit – MAC address edit control
C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev
perle1 4.52
Making a Parsable Text box in .NET 3.5
Updated: 2 Aug 2009  
A parsable text box validates and parses text inside it to strongly typed .NET objects
C# (C# 3.0), Windows, .NET (.NET 3.5), XAML, WPF, Dev
Apoorv Khurasia 4.50
Mask TextBox ASP.NET Control
Updated: 1 Apr 2009  
An ASP.NET textbox to input bank account or credit card numbers or other kinds of formatted text
C#, Javascript, .NET, ASP.NET, WebForms, Dev
radumi 4.43
Enhanced Focus Edit Control with Input Filtering
Updated: 3 Oct 2000  
An edit control that provides strong visual feedback when it has the input focus, and allows filtering of input and/or displayed characters.
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
James R. Twine 4.39
Masked Label Control
Updated: 27 Jun 2006  
A derived label control that can format its text using the same mask characters as the MaskedTextBox control.
C#, VB, Windows, .NET 2.0, WinForms, VS2005, Dev
Eric Woodruff 4.36
Number, Currency, Percentage Edit Control
Updated: 4 Oct 2000  
Edit Controls that provide masking, formatting and validating for number, currency, percentage values.
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
Ian J Hart 4.33
Advanced Numeric Edit Control
Updated: 2 Dec 2001  
An edit control that provides formatting and validation number
VC6Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
ramarez 4.25
Password Strength Control
Updated: 21 Jul 2008  
This article is about a Password Strength control, which can be used in password dialogs and login windows in Windows based .NET applications. If you want, you can use it as a progress bar control as well. This control can be shaped to different styles and can be extended, if needed.
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), .NET (.NET 2.0), Dev, Design
Tharindu Nishad Patikirikorala 4.23
Self Validating TextBox
Updated: 17 May 2008  
A self populating and self validating textbox control with business object awareness.
VB, .NET, WinForms, Architect, Dev
Edward Steward 4.22
Date-Time Edit Control
Updated: 25 Mar 2000  
A simple masked date-time editor.
VC6, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev
Tri VU KHAC 4.05
Numeric Edit Control
Updated: 2 Mar 2004  
How to subclass an edit control in MFC so that it accepts numeric values only
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev
gUrM33T 4.00
RegexTextBox: A Windows Control Library
Updated: 4 Jun 2008  
A textbox with regex masking and validation.
VB (VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, VB 6), .NET (.NET 2.0), Visual Studio (VS2005), Dev, Design
MijaeDjinn 4.00
Timed Update Edit Control
Updated: 17 Aug 2000  
An edit control to periodically validate and reformat it's contents
VC6Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev
Craig Henderson 3.89
CStringEdit - An Edit Box With Validation and Status/Alert Display
Updated: 15 Feb 2002  
A CEdit derived class with string content / length checking and highlighted status / alert display.
VC6, VC7Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
MJ_Karas 3.82
Error Controls
Updated: 14 Jun 2008  
Extended Error Provider, ToolStripErrorDropDown, and a replacement for MessageBox.
C#, .NET (.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5), Dev, Design
Chris_McGrath 3.78
Masked Edit Control
Updated: 30 Jan 2000  
A masked edit control that provides restricted, formatted and cued data input and validation
VC6, MFC, Dev
Dundas Software Ltd. 3.68
Dynamic validation with Regular expression and ErrorProvider - Unedited
Updated: 3 Oct 2008  
in this Article we following how to dynamic validation data with defind validation type and use of regular expression
VB.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, GDI, GDI+, VS2005, VS2008
Ardavan Sharifi 3.67
A Validating Edit Control
Updated: 3 Nov 2000  
A very informative, user-oriented validation edit control.
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
Joseph M. Newcomer 3.48
TdhEditBox - A dynamically assignable and configurable pop-up text-entry box
Updated: 17 Jul 2008  
This article describes a .NET component to provide a dynamically assignable and configurable pop-up text-entry box with optional Regular Expression validation of input.
C# (C# 1.0), Windows, .NET (.NET 1.0), Dev
Ilíon 3.40
A Numeric Textbox with a Twist
Updated: 3 Jan 2009  
A textbox which accepts formatted or unformatted numerics only, plus a suffix multiplier.
C#.NET 2.0VS2005, Dev
Tony Zackin 2.50
Textbox Which Holds an IP Address - Take 2
Updated: 18 Aug 2008  
This control mimics the standard IP address textbox you see in Windows. It has four sections, separated by a period, each of which contains numbers which are >= 0 and <= 255.
C# (C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0), Windows, .NET, Dev
jkatebin 2.29

Edit Controls - Owner drawn controls

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Title / Updated Author Score  
How to change the back color of an edit box when it gets the focus
Updated: 10 Jun 2001  
Change the back color of an edit box to yellow when it gets the focus, and back to white when it loses the focus.
VC6Win2K, MFC, Dev
Warren J. Hebert 2.58

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