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How to handle keyboard input messages in the form (Windows Forms .NET)

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Windows Forms provides the ability to handle keyboard messages at the form level, before the messages reach a control. This article shows how to accomplish this task.

Handle a keyboard message

Handle the KeyPress or KeyDown event of the active form and set the KeyPreview property of the form to true. This property causes the keyboard to be received by the form before they reach any controls on the form. The following code example handles the KeyPress event by detecting all of the number keys and consuming 1, 4, and 7.

// Detect all numeric characters at the form level and consume 1,4, and 7.
// Form.KeyPreview must be set to true for this event handler to be called.
void Form1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.KeyChar >= 48 && e.KeyChar <= 57)
    {
        MessageBox.Show($"Form.KeyPress: '{e.KeyChar}' pressed.");

        switch (e.KeyChar)
        {
            case (char)49:
            case (char)52:
            case (char)55:
                MessageBox.Show($"Form.KeyPress: '{e.KeyChar}' consumed.");
                e.Handled = true;
                break;
        }
    }
}

' Detect all numeric characters at the form level and consume 1,4, and 7.
' Form.KeyPreview must be set to true for this event handler to be called.
Private Sub Form1_KeyPress(sender As Object, e As KeyPressEventArgs)
    If e.KeyChar >= Chr(48) And e.KeyChar <= Chr(57) Then
        MessageBox.Show($"Form.KeyPress: '{e.KeyChar}' pressed.")

        Select Case e.KeyChar
            Case Chr(49), Chr(52), Chr(55)
                MessageBox.Show($"Form.KeyPress: '{e.KeyChar}' consumed.")
                e.Handled = True
        End Select
    End If

End Sub

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