Question

I’m working on a C# winforms application (VS.NET 2008, .NET 3.5 sp 1). I have a search field on a form, and rather than have a label next to the search field I’d like to show some grey text in the background of the search field itself (‘Search terms’, for example). When the user starts entering text in the search field the text should disappear. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

You will need to use some P/Inovke interop code to do this. Look for the Win32 API SendMessage function and the EM_SETCUEBANNER message.