Buttons and keyboard presses

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I am trying to write a simple form that serves as a keypad which has buttons 1 to 9 and zero.
I want to make the button enter the number into any currently selected text box.

For example

If I have 5 different text boxes and my cursor is selecting the forth one I want to click the button for bumber 5 and get that number put in the selected textbox

Can anyone help me with some simple sample code?

I am working Visual Studio 2010 and developing in windows form

I am very new at this so the simpler the better.

Thank you

Posted 28-Jan-13 18:46pm

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RDBurmon · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-28T18:56:00

Follow below step :
1) Design form which will have 9 keys like num pad
2) on Button click event of each button right below code

C#

SendKeys.Send("A") // Note : Replace "A" with respective button value

Suppose on click event of "1" button write below code

C#

SendKeys.Send("1") // Note : Replace "A" with respective button value

3) Read below blog for more information

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-ZA/csharplanguage/thread/a01652a5-6fc3-43ce-92dd-fc0d105d47a3[^]

Accept and vote if works otherwise revert back
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