I've noticed that the text boxes provided with VB are insert-only. So they won't go into overwrite mode when the user toggles the insert key. To make a decent workaround, you have to use api calls to find the status of the insert key, and pull little tricks to make the box act like it's in overwrite mode.

It just strikes me as odd how such a common piece of functionality was simply left out. Is there some easier way that I'm just missing? Might there be some other text box control out there that will handle this ability? Or will I just be stuck doing crazy workarounds to all of my text boxes just to get some simple functionality?

Please give me your input on this.