How to Capture Enter Key or Return Key as Tab in Windows Form

[mrspider]

By default VB.NET and C# does not listen on the enter key or return key when you press your keyboard. Those it will not move your cursor to the next control like text box. Instead a tab key is used to navigate to other control in your windows form.

A simple ProcessCmdKey Overrides function is necessary to capture this event. Allowing you to use the Tab key as the enter/return key equivalent.

Here’s the code:

1. Protected
   
   Overrides
   
   Function
   
   ProcessCmdKey(
   
   ByRef
   
   msg As
   
   System.
   
   Windows
   
   .
   
   Forms
   
   .
   
   Message
   
   , ByVal
   
   keyData As
   
   System.
   
   Windows
   
   .
   
   Forms
   
   .
   
   Keys
   
   )
   
   As
   
   Boolean
   
2. Select
   
   Case
   
   msg.
   
   WParam
   
   .
   
   ToInt32
   
   (
   
   )
   
3. Case
   
   13
   
   ' enter Key
   
4. If
   
   TypeOf
   
   Me
   
   .
   
   ActiveControl
   
   Is
   
   TextBox Then
   
5. SendKeys.
   
   Send
   
   (
   
   "{Tab}"
   
   )
   
6. Return
   
   True
   
7. End
   
   If
   
8. End
   
   Select
   
9. Return
   
   MyBase
   
   .
   
   ProcessCmdKey
   
   (
   
   msg, keyData)
   
10. End
    
    Function
    
    'ProcessCmdKey
    

The code above also work on VB.NET 2008.

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