Rich. Text. Box in CRich. Text. Box Control. A Rich. Text. Box control is an advanced text box that provides text editing and advanced formatting features including loading rich text format RTF files. In this article, I will demonstrates how to create and use various features of the Windows Forms Rich. Text. Box control. Creating a Rich. Text. DOLXp.png' alt='Vb.Net Openfiledialog Not Opening File' title='Vb.Net Openfiledialog Not Opening File' />In this article we will learn how to disable an open file security warning in Windows 8. Learn how to build a Windows Forms interface that allows you to work with your images database. VB. Net Dialog Boxes Learn VB. Net Programming in simple and easy steps starting from Environment setup, Basic Syntax, Data Types, Type Conversion, Variables. Box. We can create a Rich. Text. Box control using a Forms designer at design time or using the Rich. Text. Box class in code at run time. To create a Rich. Text. Box control at design time, you simply drag and drop a Rich. Text. Box control from the Toolbox onto a Form in Visual Studio. Once a Rich. Text. Box is added to a Form, you can move it around and resize it using the mouse and set its properties and events. Creating a Rich. Text. Box control at run time is merely a work of creating an instance of Rich. Text. Box class, setting its properties and adding the Rich. A RichTextBox control is an advanced text box that provides text editing and advanced formatting features including loading rich text format RTF files. In this. I am writing a small application that would read an excel file and then update a SQL database. The excel file has only 2 columns A and B. A has the ItemID. I am opening a file using OpenFileDialog. My code is as follows Public Sub ShowOpenDialog Dim f As New OpenFileDialog f. InitialDirectory GetFolderPath. MSDN Magazine Issues and Downloads. Read the magazine online, download a formatted digital version of each issue, or grab sample code and apps. PDF files that contain the Visual Studio 2005 documentation. Text. Box object to the Forms Controls collection. The first step to create a dynamic Rich. Text. Box is to create an instance of the Rich. Text. Box class. The following code snippet creates a Rich. Text. Box control object. Create a Rich. Text. Box object Rich. Text. Box dynamic. Rich. Text. Box new. Rich. Text. Box In the next step, you may set properties of a Rich. Text. Box control. The following code snippet sets size, location, background color, foreground color, Text, Name, and Font properties of a Rich. Text. Box. dynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Location new. Point2. 0, 2. 0 dynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Width 3. Rich. Text. Box. Height 2. Set background and foregrounddynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Back. Color Color. Red dynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Fore. Color Color. Blue dynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Text I am Dynamic Rich. Text. Box dynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Name Dynamic. Rich. Text. Box dynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Font new. FontGeorgia, 1. Once a Rich. Text. Box control is ready with its properties, the next step is to add the Rich. Text. Box control to the Form. To do so, we use Form. Controls. Add method. The following code snippet adds a Rich. Text. Box control to the current Form. Controls. Adddynamic. Rich. Text. Box  A Rich. Text. Box control looks like Figure 1. Figure 1. Setting Rich. Text. Box Properties. After you place a Rich. Text. Box control on a Form, the next step is to set properties. The easiest way to set properties is from the Properties Window. You can open Properties window by pressing F4 or right click on a control and select Properties menu item. The Properties window looks like Figure 2. Figure 2. Location, Height, Width, and Size. The Location property takes a Point that specifies the starting position of the Rich. Text. Box on a Form. The Size property specifies the size of the control. We can also use Width and Height property instead of Size property. The following code snippet sets Location, Width, and Height properties of a Rich. Text. Box control. Rich. Text. Box. Location new. Point2. 0, 2. 0 dynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Width 3. Rich. Text. Box. Height 2. Background, Foreground, Border. Style. Back. Color and Fore. Color properties are used to set the background and foreground color of a Rich. Text. Box respectively. If you click on these properties in Properties window, the Color Dialog pops up. Alternatively, you can set background and foreground colors at run time. The following code snippet sets Back. Color and Fore. Color properties. Set background and foregrounddynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Back. Color Color. Red dynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Fore. Color Color. Blue You can also set the borders style of a Rich. Text. Box by using the Border. Style property. The Border. Style property is represented by a Border. Style enumeration that has three values Fixed. Single, Fixed. 3D, and None. The default value of border style is Fixed. D. The following code snippet sets the border style of a Rich. Text. Box to Fixed. Single. dynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Border. Style Border. Style. Fixed. Single Name. The Name property represents a unique name of a Rich. Text. Box control. It is used to access the control in the code. The following code snippet sets and gets the name and text of a Rich. Text. Box control. Rich. Text. Box. Name Dynamic. Rich. Text. Box Text and Text. Length. The Text property of a Rich. Text. Box represents the current text of a Rich. Text. Box control. The Text. Length property returns the length of a Rich. Text. Box contents. The following code snippet sets the Text and Text. Align properties and gets the size of a Rich. Text. Box control. Rich. Text. Box. Text I am Dynamic Rich. Text. Box int size dynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Text. Length Append Text. One way to append text to a Rich. Text. Box is simply set Text property to current text plus new text you would want to append something like this. Rich. Text. Box. 1. Text Appended text Rich. Text. Box also has the Apend. Text method to do the same. The Append. Text method appends text at the end of a Rich. Text. Box. The following code snippet uses Append. Text method to append text to the Rich. Text. Box. 1 contents. Rich. Text. Box. 1. Append. Text Appended text Accepts. Tab. If a Rich. Text. Box control is set to multiline, the Accepts. Tab property is used to set the Rich. Text. Box control to accept the TAB key as text. If this property is not set, pressing the TAB key simply moves to the next control on the Form. By default, the Accepts. Tab property value of a Rich. Text. Box control is false. TAB keydynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Accepts. Tab true Word. Wrap. If Word. Wrap property is true, the text in the Rich. Text. Box control automatically wraps to the next line if required. If this property is set to true, horizontal scroll bars are not displayed regardless of the Scroll. Bars property setting. Wordwrapdynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Word. Wrap true Scroll. Bars. A Multiline Rich. Text. Box control can have scrollbars. The Scroll. Bars property of Rich. Text. Box control is used to show scrollbars on a control. The Scroll. Bars property is represented by a Rich. Text. Box. Scroll. Bars enumeration that has four values Both, Vertical, Horizontal, and None. The following code snippet makes both vertical and horizontal scrollbars active on a Rich. Text. Box control and they will be visible when the scrolling is needed on a Rich. Text. Box control. Rich. Text. Box. Scroll. Bars Rich. Text. Box. Scroll. Bars. Both Font. Font property represents the font of text of a Rich. Text. Box control. If you click on the Font property in the Properties window, you will see Font name, size and other font options. The following code snippet sets Font property at run time. Rich. Text. Box. Font new. FontGeorgia, 1. Maximum Length. You can restrict the number of characters in a Rich. Text. Box control by setting Max. Length property. The following code snippet sets the maximum length of a Rich. Text. Box to 5. 0 characters. Rich. Text. Box. Read. Only true dynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Max. Daniel Arends De Zachte Heelmeester. Janome Embroidery File Viewer more. Length 5. 0 Read. Only. You can make a Rich. Text. Box control read only non editable by setting the Read. Only property to true. The following code snippet sets the Read. Only property to true. Rich. Text. Box. Read. Only true Enabling and Disabling Shortcuts. Shortcuts. Enabled property of the Rich. Text. Box is used to enable or disable shortcuts. By default, shortcuts are enabled. The following code snippet disables shortcuts in a Rich. Text. Box. dynamic. Rich. Text. Box. Shortcuts. Enabled false Shortcuts.