TextChange Event

Chris

First of all I just picked up C# a few days ago, so I am green as grass. The problem I am having is with the TextChange event. I am trying to get the name of the text box that this event came from. Here is a sample of my code.

myTextBox.TextChanged += new EventHandler(textBoxChanged);

private void textBoxChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

//This is where I need to know what textbox fired the event.

}

How do I send the name to this? Any thoughts? I might not even be approaching this properly. I also checked out some custom event handlers, but being new, it's a nightmare.

Thanks in advance,

Chris

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Chris19y ago
Alan you are both a gentleman and a scholar. I am most appreciative. I have been racking my brain and scanning through everything on the internet and you have finally provided me with the answer. Thank you again.
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Alan19y ago
The 'sender' parameter represents the TextBox object whose Text property has changed. You can get a usable reference to it like this:

TextBox tb = (TextBox)sender;

You need to cast sender to TextBox because sender is declared as an Object.

You can then get the name of the TextBox like this:

string name = tb.Name;
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