How to Use KeyPress Event in Array of TextBoxes

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i have a array of textboxes in a form. the array has 10 textboxes in it and i want to validate each textbox on key press it will be very lengthy if i do that so i want to use the krypress through array of textbox i have tries this code can u tell me hoe i should use it with array of textboxes

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Dim TxtFrom() As TextBox = {txtfr1, txtfr2, txtfr3, txtfr4, txtfr5, txtfr6, txtfr7, txtfr8, txtfr9}

        Dim TxtTo() As TextBox = {txtTo1, txtTo2, txtTo3, txtTo4, txtTo5, txtTo6, txtTo7, txtTo8, txtTo9}
  Private Sub txtfr1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles txtfr1.KeyPress
        e.Handled = Not (Char.IsDigit(e.KeyChar) Or e.KeyChar = ".")
    End Sub

Posted 25-Dec-12 4:18am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-12-25T08:10:00

Make a loop in the array of text boxes; in this loop, add an event handler to every one; in the event handler, use the same method to deal with the sender, which will be a reference to a particular text box.

If this is just validation, is some cases you won't even need to know a reference to each of the text boxes is passed to the event handling method. However, usually this is needed. The only information you can use is the reference to the sender, passed as a first parameter of the event handler.

First, you can always type-case this reference to TextBox, because, in this scenario, this is always the sender. So, you get a reference to an instance of the TextBox. To pass additional information, you can use the property TextBox.Tag (inherited from Control.Tag). In your case, it would be the best to assign an index in your array to this Tag. In the event handler, you type-cast Tag to int and this way know the index of the array element being handled.

[EDIT]

I almost forgot, VB.NET does not have '+=' operator for adding a handler to an invocation list of an event instance. You need to use AddHandler. This is shown in a code sample here, see the answer #0:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4199370/how-to-create-event-for-dynamic-control-array-in-vb-net[^].

—SA