Select All textbox

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Hi,
i want when press ctrl+A any character in my textbox be selected
give ideal code tank's.

Posted 18-Sep-12 23:56pm

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Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-19T00:03:00

If you are using the standard C# toolkit textbox, this feature should already be built into it.

Posted 19-Sep-12 0:03am

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amirmohamad 19-Sep-12 6:10am

I use visual studio 2010 and ctrl+A is not work for my textbox

Abhinav S 19-Sep-12 6:12am

Try http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.textboxbase.selectall.aspx

amirmohamad 19-Sep-12 6:14am

sometime work and sometime not

Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-19T01:31:00

This is a known issue: "Select all" shortcut (ctrl-A) doesn't work in Multiline Textbox[^].

This site has a workaround you can use: Select All (ctrl+A) For A Textbox[^].

Hope this helps!

Regards,

— Manfred

Posted 19-Sep-12 1:31am

Updated 19-Sep-12 22:29pm

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amirmohamad 20-Sep-12 3:45am

Awesome, thanks for this

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 20-Sep-12 4:27am

You're welcome!
I hope it works for you now.