How to fire the Click event of a button by hitting Enter in a Text

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I have a single button on my form, and when I press the Enter key while a
TextBox has focus I want the Button.Click event to fire.

Is there a simple way to do this ?
 
New to this myself, but surely the 'KeyPress' event.. you can detect if the
keypress was an enter, and then Button.click();
 
You can call the event handler by calling something like
this.button1_Click(this.button1, null); from the textbox Keypress
eventhandler if the KeyChar value of the KeyPressEventArgs e is equal to
(char)13. However you might want to consider not placing the code to
be executed in the event handler itself but instead in a private method
and call that method from both the button Click and textbox Keypress
events. This concept can be extended by using the Command design pattern
which I have found leads to much cleaner code in winform applications.
For more information about the Command design pattern see:
http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/PatternCommand.aspx

Regards,

Olle
 
Create an onkeypress event on the button. When catched check which
button is pressed and if its the enter button call the 'button1_Click'
method.

For example

private void button1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
if(e.KeyChar == (char) 13)
{
this.button1_Click(sender, new EventArgs());
}
}
 
Set the forms .AcceptButton to the button you want. You may also want to
make use of .CancelButton.
 
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