How to create a numeric textbox in Silverlight?

Question

As the title says really. I\'ve had a look at inheriting from TextBox, but the only sensible override was \"OnKeyDown\", but that just gives me a key from the Key enum (with

Answer 1

I know it has been answered, but I found no proper solution that handles all special cases, most answers here swallows some important keys like Home, End, Tab, Shift+ any thing, ..etc.

So, I developed my own implementation as it may help somebody!

public class IntegerTextBox : TextBox
    {
        /// 

        /// To be raised whenever integer value changed
        /// 
        public event EventHandler ValueChanged;

        /// 

        /// To restore if the user entered invalid characters
        /// 
        private int lastSavedValue = 0;

        private int lastSelectionStart = 0;
        private int lastSelectionLength = 0;


        public int IntegerValue
        {
            get
            {
                //the default value is 0 if there is no text in the textbox
                int value = 0;
                int.TryParse(Text, out value);
                return value;
            }
            set
            {
                if (this.Text.Trim() != value.ToString())
                {
                    Text = value.ToString();
                }
            }
        }

        public IntegerTextBox()
            : base()
        {
            this.LostFocus += (sender, e) =>
                {
                    //if the user clears the text the text box and leaves it, set it to default value
                    if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.Text))
                        IntegerValue = 0;
                };
            this.Loaded += (sender, e) =>
                {
                    //populate the textbox with Initial IntegerValue (default = 0)
                    this.Text = this.IntegerValue.ToString();
                };

            this.TextChanged += (sender, e) =>
                {
                    int newValue = 0;
                    if (int.TryParse(this.Text, out newValue)) //this will handle most cases like number exceeds the int max limits, negative numbers, ...etc.
                    {
                        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Text) || lastSavedValue != newValue)
                        {
                            lastSavedValue = newValue;
                            //raise the event
                            EventHandler handler = ValueChanged;
                            if (handler != null)
                                handler(this, EventArgs.Empty);

                        }
                    }
                    else 
                    {
                        //restore previous number
                        this.Text = lastSavedValue.ToString();
                        //restore selected text
                        this.SelectionStart = lastSelectionStart;
                        this.SelectionLength = lastSelectionLength;
                    }
                };

            this.KeyDown += (sender, e) =>
                {
                    //before every key press, save selection start and length to handle overwriting selected numbers
                    lastSelectionStart = this.SelectionStart;
                    lastSelectionLength = this.SelectionLength;
                };
        }
    } 

The above code has a single disadvantage, TextChanged event will be raised frequently, but since we need an integer textbox, then we can rely on ValueChanged instead!