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Showing a Message Box when the Border Color Changes
Input for WinForms Task-Based Help > Showing a Message Box when the Border Color Changes

You can use the BorderColorChanged event when the value of the BorderColor property changes.

To create a message box when the border color changes for C1TextBox, complete the following:

  1. Add a C1TextBox control to your form.
  2. Navigate to C1TextBox’s properties window and change the BorderStyle property to "FixedSingle".
  3. Add a MouseClick event to the C1TextBox control to change C1TextBox’s border color to purple.

    To write code in Visual Basic

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    Private Sub C1TextBox1_MouseClick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles C1TextBox1.MouseClick
        C1TextBox1.BorderColor = Color.Purple
    End Sub
    

    To write code in C#

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    private void c1TextBox1_MouseClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
            {
     
                c1TextBox1.BorderColor = Color.Purple;
            }
    
  4. Add a BorderColorChanged event to C1TextBox1 to show a message box that informs the user the border color has changed.

    To write code in Visual Basic

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    Private Sub C1TextBox1_BorderColorChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles C1TextBox1.BorderColorChanged
       MessageBox.Show(“The C1TextBox1 border color change to purple”)
    End Sub
    

    To write code in C#

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    private void c1TextBox1_BorderColorChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("The c1TextBox1 border color changed to purple");
            }
    

This topic illustrates the following:

When you mouse click on the C1TextBox control the border color changes to purple. Once it changes to purple the BorderColorChanged event fires and a message box appears informing the user that the border color has changed.


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