SelectAll() behaves differently between MouseClick and Enter events in C# 2015

Question

I'm trying to highlight text in every controls as it enters. It works fine when I'm using MouseClick event. But when using Enter event, it doesn't work. I need to use Enter event instead of MouseClick event because I want to highlight the text no matter how each control gets focus. I can debug the Enter event, and can see that it's processing through. But for some reason SelectAll() is not being processed at all. Why the different behavior?

// This works
private void ClientEdit_MouseClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    Control c = sender as Control;
    if (c is TextBox) (sender as TextBox).SelectAll();
    else if (c is MaskedTextBox) (sender as MaskedTextBox).SelectAll();
}

// This does not work
private void ClientEdit_Enter(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Control c = sender as Control;
    if (c is TextBox) (sender as TextBox).SelectAll();
    else if (c is MaskedTextBox) (sender as MaskedTextBox).SelectAll();
}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '17 at 18:20

I've found a post about 2 years ago by @Jack-Fairfield, shown below, and it works!

private void maskedTextBox1_Enter(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    BeginInvoke((Action) delegate { SetMaskedTextBoxSelectAll((MaskedTextBox) sender); });
}

private void SetMaskedTextBoxSelectAll(MaskedTextBox txtbox)
{
    txtbox.SelectAll();
}

I just started here and don't have enough reputation to give him the credit. Thanks.

SelectAll() behaves differently between MouseClick and Enter events in C# 2015

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