How to hide the caret in a RichTextBox?

Question

Just like the title: I\'ve searched the web for an answer, but i was not able to find a way to hide the caret of a RichTextBox in VB.NET.

I\'ve tried to set the Rich

Answer 1

Place the richTextBox control on the form

Set form name as Form1

Set richTextBox name as richTextBox1

If you do not want to allow user to copy the text set richTextBox1 ShortcutsEnabled property to False

Go to Project->Add Component, enter name of the component ReadOnlyRichTextBox.cs

Then open ReadOnlyRichTextBox.cs and paste following code:

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace 
{
    public partial class ReadOnlyRichTextBox : RichTextBox
    {
        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        static extern bool HideCaret(IntPtr hWnd);

        public ReadOnlyRichTextBox()
        {
            this.ReadOnly = true;
        }

        protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
        {
            base.WndProc(ref m);
            HideCaret(this.Handle);
        }
    }
}

From Solution Explorer open your "Form1.Designer.cs" and replace in this file the following lines:

this.richTextBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox();

with

this.richTextBox1 = new ReadOnlyRichTextBox();

and

private System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox richTextBox1;

with

private ReadOnlyRichTextBox richTextBox1;