Why on entering the first character in a textbox the event triggers ?

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In a textbox I want to enter code 65 to find a row in a table. What happens is that at the
instance of entering 6 itself the event textbox_textchanged is getting trigerred and it reads that
row in the table which belongs to code 6. I want to enter the full code and at the click of enter key or tab key that event should get trigerred. How to do it?

Posted 22-Mar-14 23:10pm

S.Rajendran from Coimbatore

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-22T23:43:00

Solution 1

Don't use the TextChanged event - it triggers every single time the text in the textbox changes.
Instead, use the Validated event.

Posted 22-Mar-14 23:43pm

OriginalGriff