How to make a form close when pressing the escape key?

Question

I have a small form, which comes up when I press a button in a Windows Forms application.

I want to be able to close the form by pressing the escape key. How could I do t

Answer 1

The best way i found is to override the "ProcessDialogKey" function. This way canceling a open control is still possible because the function is only called when no other control uses the pressed Key.

This is the same behaviour as when setting a CancelButton. Using the KeyDown Event fires always and thus the form would close even when it should cancel the edit of an open editor.

protected override bool ProcessDialogKey(Keys keyData)
{
    if (Form.ModifierKeys == Keys.None && keyData == Keys.Escape)
    {
        this.Close();
        return true;
    }
    return base.ProcessDialogKey(keyData);
}