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  1. Feb 5th, 2007, 05:36 PM #1
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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Finding Current Cursor Position in Textbox?

    How do you determine the cursor's current position in a textbox?
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  2. Feb 5th, 2007, 06:15 PM #2
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    Re: Finding Current Cursor Position in Textbox?

    You use the SelectionStart and SelectionLength properties. If no text is selected then SelectionLength will be zero.
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    Re: Finding Current Cursor Position in Textbox?

    Thanks. I thought I had read somewhere that this (and similar properties) wasn't available in .NET--that it was from VB6. I was wrong...
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    Re: [RESOLVED] Finding Current Cursor Position in Textbox?

    Had you looked at the member listing for the TextBox class in the MSDN library you would have seen otherwise.
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    Re: [RESOLVED] Finding Current Cursor Position in Textbox?

    I refer to you to here.
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    Re: [RESOLVED] Finding Current Cursor Position in Textbox?

    And I strongly disagree and reiterate that to assume it's too hard and not bother is a good way to never get better.
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