Text Validation Sample
This sample compares two ways of validating text:
Using regular expressions in a custom TextBox control
Using a MaskedTextBox control
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Demonstrates
This sample shows how you can create a set of special-purpose text boxes that are designed for a specific type of input. This sample includes text boxes for e-mail addresses, IP addresses, and phone numbers.
The MaskedTextBox control provides validation as the user types, so incorrect text never appears in the MaskedTextBox.
The RegExTextBox class, derived from TextBox in this sample, serves at the base class for several other controls. This class validates the contents of the TextBox control against a given regular expression. When the user clicks the Validate button on the main form, the code loops through the controls collection to find all the RegExTextBox controls, then casts them to that base type to call the IsValid property. If the input is invalid, the TextBox text color will be red.