Unable to remove Beep on Alt+A

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Paul

I created a sample Project with a basic form and one text box. I put
"e.Handled = True" on every KeyDown, KeyPress and KeyUp event for both
the Form and the TextBox. When I run the app, and press the Alt+A (or
any Alt+character) button, it beeps (very annoying). Does anyone know
why and how to fix it?
 
I had the same problem, except I needed the beep removed on the entire
form. One possible way is to put a Menu Strip on the form and set
visible to false if you don't use it.

The solution I found was to set e.SuppressKeyPress to True after
handling the form's KeyDown event. So your code would look something
like:

Private Sub frm_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown
If e.Alt AndAlso e.KeyValue = Keys.A Then
<EXECUTE ALT-A CODE HERE>
e.SuppressKeyPress = True
End If
End Sub

The form will still beep when you hit another Alt combination that is
not explicitly handled and then the args keypress suppressed as above.

Drew
 
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