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If you don't want to allow any other characters entry except for the alphanumeric characters in a TextBox, then you can do this on the KeyPress
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In the KeyPress Event, you need to check whether the entered character is either a Letter or a Digit.
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If yes, then allow the Key pressing by setting

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Otherwise, don't allow the Key pressing by setting "e.Handled = true"
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In addition to the alphanumeric characters, generally one should allow the backspace character too along with the alphanumeric characters so Files
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In order to do that, you need to add one more condition in the if block as

private void textBox_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)

{
    if (Char.IsLetterOrDigit(e.KeyChar)     // Allowing only any letter OR Digit
            ||e.KeyChar == '\b')                 // Allowing BackSpace character
    {
        e.Handled = false;
    }
    else
    {
        e.Handled = true;
    }
}

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Very Helping Thanks..

Ammar Shaukat Aug 04, 2015
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I don't get any working solution to restrict textbox to alphanumeric only in windows phone 8.1 app from the past 7
days. Can you suggest me any method to handle this. Thanks for the previous help.
Harshit Chauhan Jul 22, 2015
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How to add defenition of KeyChar in Windows. UI.Xaml.Input.KeyRoutedEventArgs or any other directive is to be

used... I am working on windows phone 8.1 project
Harshit Chauhan Jul 18, 2015
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I have no idea how it will be handled on Windows Phone project.

Hemant Srivastava Jul 20, 2015
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How to restrict a user not to copy-paste text into the textbox

Harshit Chauhan Jul 18, 2015
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Generally this kind of validation I prefer to do on when you exit from the textbox (through validate event
on TextBox)
Hemant Srivastava Jul 20, 2015
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how to use this method? mean to say where from to call this method . Which arguments i've to pass into the
function ?
Ammar Hassan Mar 30, 2015
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You need to attach an event handler "Key Press" on the TextBox in your Winform. Then you need to use
the above code in that event handler.
Hemant Srivastava Mar 31, 2015
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