AAAKK! Where's the masks @??

[The One Who Was]

I've become somewhat familiar with vb6 over the past years and just recently took up some .net self training. I'm just curious, how do you enable masks? I can add the msmask ocx com control, but it doesn't seem to work right when I fill the dataset. Is there another way to format or create masks for text boxes ect?? Any help would be great =)

 

Thanks all

 

~The One Who Was~

[Nerseus]

You shouldn't use the MaskEdit box that was from VB6 as it's not a .NET control. You can now validate using Regular Expressions, though it won't provide the hard-coded placement of characters like a mask edit box. If you truly need that type of support, you can find many sample controls (with source) by searching google. Or, you could always buy a 3rd party control with that support.

 

I'm not sure why the mask edit doesn't work now as I'm not that familiar with it (haven't used it for many years).

 

-Nerseus