Winforms UI Best practices: Form.AutoValidate = EnableAllowFocusChange | Peter Gfader 's Blog

Winforms UI Best practices: Form.AutoValidate = EnableAllowFocusChange

Set on every form: Form.AutoValidate = EnableAllowFocusChange

Figure: Form.AutoValidate = EnablePreventFocusChange, prevents you from leaving your textbox until your data entry is correct

Figure: Form.AutoValidate = EnableAllowFocusChange with Errorproviders tell you bad data entry, but let you change to other controls

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: dham, this should be default!; 15 June, 2009 14:18
Anonymous said...: For users who enter data only with the keyboard and change fields with TAB, the first solution is better because the cursor stays on the non correct textbox.

Dominique; 02 August, 2009 17:41
Dain said...: And here I was digging why focus was locked on that particular listbox... Well, now I know.; 29 April, 2012 20:31

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