MaskedEditBox

[ggootee]

I am writing a program in which I need to use , or I would like to use, the maskeditbox. However, even after making sure I have the reference for it. I want to change the backcolor as a person moves into the field and have some that are required that I want to change to Red if the user tries to submit data with out filling them out. I have even tried the default in the properties which changes it in design view but when ran stays white. Does anyone have any ideas. I have two needs. One is that I really wanted to have the Social Security Number look like ###-##-#### and the other fields are currency fields which I would like to have $###,###,###.00. I have been playing with the format command but will have to write a ton of code to convert from a string and back again. Help anyone...

[Derek Stone]

I'm really lost as to your mentioning of MaskedEditBox, since there isn't one in .NET. Are you using a third party control? Inheriting from the base TextBox class?

[ggootee]

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Hi, I added it through the com reference using VB6 interop. Is there another way to do the same thing in .net that I should be doing? In VB 6 I had it set that when a user entered 500 in a field as soon as they left the maskedit would change it to look like $500.00 any ideas on how to do this in .net thanks

[Derek Stone]

You should not be using COM in .NET unless you absolutely have to. Instead, use a TextBox's Validating event, checking for the proper format using .NET's built in Regular Expressions and the basic string and currency functions.

[ggootee]

Hi I made the changes like you suggested and it works good. Thanks for the hlep

 

Greg