highlighting text in a textbox

Question

I had a simple function written in VB 6 for selecting all the text in a textbox when it got focus. Does anyone know how to to the same in VB 2005.

Public Sub Highlight()

With Screen.ActiveForm
If (TypeOf .ActiveControl Is TextBox) Then
.ActiveControl.SelStart = 0
.ActiveControl.SelLength = Len(.ActiveControl)
End If
End With

End Sub

The SelStart and SelLength methods don't appear to exist in VB.Net.

Answer 1

in the gotfocus event

 

me.textbox1.select(0,me.textbox1.text.length)

 

or

 

me.textbox1.selectall

 

Answer 2

Hi,

TextBox1.SelectAll() function works.

 

Thanks,

Ch.T.Gopi Kumar.

Answer 3

Two quork about textbox...  

         If the textbox doesn't have focus the selection doesn't show.... 

 

         If you click on a textbox the selection disapears and cursor appears at click position....   (The default way it should be..)