Comments on: Best Way to Close Form with Escape Key

By: dude

dude — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:11:50 +0000

Great solution, thank you!

hasan — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:04:18 +0000

Well the third one is working great… Ty

Graham O'Neale — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:52:59 +0000

You mean like in my first example?
It doesn’t always work.

Luu Tai — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:53:16 +0000

It’s so easy.
Form1.KeyPreview =true;
private void Form1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
if (e.KeyCode==Keys.Escape )
{
this.Close();
}
}

Dan Dar3 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:54:32 +0000

Nice post. Also see:

How to trap keystrokes in controls by using Visual C#
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320584