Question

I have a few TextBox on the WinForm. I would like the focus to move to the next control when Enter key is pressed? Whenever a textbox gains control, it will also select the text, so that any editing will replace the current one.

What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Tab as Enter: create a user control which inherits textbox, override the KeyPress method. If the user presses enter you can either call SendKeys.Send("{TAB}") or System.Windows.Forms.Control.SelectNextControl(). Note you can achieve the same using the KeyPress event.

Focus Entire text: Again, via override or events, target the GotFocus event and then call TextBox.Select method.