How do I allow CTRL-V (Paste) on a Winforms Textbox?

Question

I have several textboxes on a windows form.

I can't paste text into any of them using CTRL-V, though I can still right click and select paste. This is pretty annoying.

I have tried this with the form's KeyPreview as both true and false. TextBox.ShortcutsEnabled is also true.

Answer 1

The code you posted has nothing to do with your Ctrl + V problem, that is for certain. Not much else I can tell you unless you post some more code.

Special code should not be needed for Ctrl + V, but one guess I have is to make sure you have YourTextBoxId.ShortcutsEnabled set to True.

Answer 2

The following code should help:

private void textBox1_KeyUp(object sender, KeyEventArgs e) {
    if (e.KeyData == (Keys.Control | Keys.V))
        (sender as TextBox).Paste();
}

Answer 3

Check to see if you have a menu on the form with a shortcut for Ctrl-V.

Answer 4

Yeah.. I know this is answered but I thought I'd throw my 2cents in just for fun. I also had a similar problem. Setting the TextBox.ShortcutsEnabled value to True did nothing for me. I was surprised to see the note left by Microsoft here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.textboxbase.shortcutsenabled.aspx regarding this issue. Quite interesting to say the least.

Given that, I just implemented the functionality through the key even handlers as indicated in the post by Webleeuw.

Answer 5

Hello Guys,

I was also going thru with the same problem. after a lot of googling finally I found the solution. It is because in the aplliciation ctrl+v shortcut was already defined(Edit menu-> Paste). After removing this...it work fine for me....Hope that it helps....