dashed rectangle around a winforms button in VB.NET

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hi,

Iam stuck with this issue for quite some time. I have a button control in a vb.net winform. I want to set focus on this button for which i have used the btnSave.Select(), but this function sets the focus on the button without displaying the dashed rectangle around the button. How can i create dashed rectangle around a button control programatically? Please help. This is really urgent!

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Girish

Posted 14-Apr-11 22:47pm

papfan

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Ankit Rajput · Answer 1 · 2011-04-14T22:51:00

Solution 1

Hi,

Try btnSave.Focus() instead of btnSave.Select()

If it doesn't work please have a look on this link
Button Control

Regards
Ankit

Posted 14-Apr-11 22:51pm

Ankit Rajput

Updated 14-Apr-11 23:05pm

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Wayne Gaylard 15-Apr-11 4:54am

snap!

papfan 15-Apr-11 12:36pm

Sorry btnSave.Focus() doesnt work since i have tabindex set in the form. btnSave.Select() works , it displays the blue border, but not the dashed rectange. My requirement is to display the blue border and the dashed rectangle around the button once the btn.Select() method is called.

Wayne Gaylard · Answer 2 · 2011-04-14T22:52:00

Solution 2

Try btnSave.Focus().

Posted 14-Apr-11 22:52pm

Wayne Gaylard

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 3 · 2011-04-14T23:02:00

It's not Select, it's Focus.

You only need to draw a dashed rectangle if you custom-draw your Button, for example, in your custom control class.

One class you can use is System.Windows.Forms.ButtonRenderer. This class is the rendered, it just draw using the Graphics instance, but it renders the whole button at once, not its separate elements.

If you want a separate elements, use System.Windows.Forms.ControlPaint. You may want to use System.Windows.Forms.ControlPaint.DrawGrid for your dotted rectangle. There are many other useful methods.

—SA