How to read the key pressed by user and get its unicode value in VB 2010 ?

Question

Hi I am using Unicodes for the first time. 

This is my situation I have a rich text box and I need to to know which key user pressed and get its Unicode value for comparison in a switch case statement. Could somebody please give the code for the same in VB 2010 .

Thanks in advance.

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Jithu R Jacob My current Project : https://sourceforge.net/projects/harisree/files/Harisree/

Answer 1

Handle the KeyPress event. The character in e.KeyChar represents the Unicode character. To get the numeric value, call

      Dim codepoint As UInt16

      codepoint = Convert.ToUInt16(e.KeyChar)

EDIT: Of course, for a Select Case statement, you can also just write

select case e.keychar

case "A"c

case "B"c

End select

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Armin