Prevent automatic selection on textbox focus

Question

When you use a tab key to select a textbox, all text in it is automatically selected. What's the easiest way to prevent this from happening? (Setting the selection to none in Enter or GotFocus events doesn't work)

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Answer 1

_{(I'm assuming that you are using WinForms)}

What you have said you have already tried does work.

If you handle the Enter event on the text box, you can set the selection to nothing:

Private Sub textBox_Enter(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    Dim position As Integer = textBox.Text.Length
    textBox.Select(position, position)
End Sub

This sets the selection to be a zero-length string starting at the end of the text currently in the text box. This is to position the caret at the end of the current text.

Answer 2

You can also use textBox.DeSelectAll().