I don't recall any masked edit text box in VB 6 - I used a few commercial ActiveX controls for this type of functionality. Did I miss something>

>There used to be a masked edit text box in VB 6.0, but it seems to have disappeared from .NET. As I remember it, it just had a string property that wasn't quite a regular expression, more like a template, and for each keystroke, it evaluated if it conformed to the template, ignoring wrong characters. If your template was "(###) ###-####" for a phone number and the user typed "12345ABC", they would see "(123) 45|-", where "|" is the cursor and the text was ignored. I would prefer a regular expression to a template. I could code my own, of course, but it is such a common need, I keep rubbing my colored infinity icon for VS.NET and making the same wish.
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>I am hoping that it will be included in the next version. Does anyone know if it will be? Are there any Whidbey groupies who know? (Or should I have said, "Whidbey Insiders"?)
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>>Before I spend too much time on creating my own custom NumericTextBox I wanted to check if something like that exists in the framework, or if the functionality I want can be obtained by TextBox properties.
>>I would like a NumericTextBox to obay the following rules:
>>- Only numeric values can be entered (0-9, ',' , '.' , '-' and '+')
>>- Property for min and max value
>>- Property for using thousand separator or not
>>- Property if decimal is allowed or not
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>>In VFP I could easily do this using the inputmask property, and I was wondering if there was something as easy as that in C#.
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>>Thanks,
>>Einar