Question

I have a textbox, a standard button and a toolstrip containing a couple of buttons.
In the validating event of the textbox I coded to check whether it is blank.
If yes then it shows a message ‘Enter Value’. When the standard button is clicked while
the textbox is empty, it’s validating properly and showing the message but when the
toolstripbutton is clicked it’s not validating the textbox and no message is shown. It seems that I’ve got to write the validation code explicitly in the
toolstripbutton_click event which is too troublesome when there are multiple textboxes and toolstripbuttons on a single form.

What I want to know is whether the textbox_validating can be fired when the toolstripbutton is clicked? Handling toolstrips is really a headache.

Answer 1

Write the following in toolstripbutton click event:

Me.Validate()