c# - Textbox value changed

Question

Is it possible to know if any of the textbox values have changed in the application. I have around 30 textboxes and I want to run a part of code only if, any of the textboxes value has changed out of the 30. Is there a way I can know that.

Answer 1

Each text box will raise an event TextChanged when it's contents have changed. However, that requires you to subscribe to each and every event.

The good news is that you can subscribe to the event with the same method multiple times. The handler has a parameter sender which you can use to determine which of your 30 text boxes has actually raised the event.

You can also use the GotFocus and LostFocus events to keep track of actual changes. You would need to store the original value on GotFocus and then compare to the current value on LostFocus. This gets round the problem of two TextChanged events cancelling each other out.