Masks in a TextBox

[jeva39]

In a VB.NET form is possible to define a mask for entering data in a TextBox, for example, a Phone Number (507) 2174970 or a specific Date format? Please, how I can do this?

Thanks in advanced

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

this one uses Regular Expressions to validate what's in the Text property: http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/TextBoxValidation.asp

this one uses both regular expressions and maskededit control: http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/validtext3.asp

here's just a masked edit textbox: http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/maskedbox_control.asp

 

[jeva39]

Thanks!! Problem solved.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

awsome to hear that, i also heard that the framework v2.0 has a masked edit box but i've never played with the beta versions of VS.Net 2005

 

[jmcilhinney]

I use the old ActiveX masked edit control that ships with VS.NET. You can add it to your toolbox by selecting Add/Remove Items, then find Microsoft Masked Edit Control on the COM Components tab. I'll bet a lot of the third party alternatives are better or easier to use though. .NET 2.0 does have a good Masked Edit Control, but the issue is that you must apply a fixed-length mask. There is no support for regular expressions so each character in the mask corresponds to one character in the text.