Control.KeyDown Event
Occurs when a key is pressed while the control has focus.
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
Key events occur in the following order:
To handle keyboard events only at the form level and not enable other controls to receive keyboard events, set the KeyPressEventArgs.Handled property in your form's KeyPress event-handling method to true. Certain keys, such as the TAB, RETURN, ESC, and arrow keys are handled by controls automatically. To have these keys raise the KeyDown event, you must override the IsInputKey method in each control on your form. The code for the override of the IsInputKey would need to determine if one of the special keys is pressed and return a value of true. Instead of overriding the IsInputKey method, you can handle the PreviewKeyDown event and set the IsInputKeyproperty to true. For a code example, see the PreviewKeyDown event.
For more information about handling events, see Handling and Raising Events.
Available since 1.1