Prevent Blinking Cursor in Textbox

Question

In a textbox, how can u prevent the display of the blinking cursor when you click on it?

I did read in some forums that there is call to a particular api but when i

Answer 1

If you want to disallow editing on the textbox, set it's ReadOnly property to true.

If you want to allow editing but still hide the caret, call the Win32 API exactly as specified:

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern bool HideCaret(IntPtr hWnd);

...

HideCaret(myTextBox.Handle);