Re: how to determine the next control in validating event

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From: Bruce Wood (brucewood_at_canada.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: 24 Jan 2005 17:01:57 -0800

You want to set CausesValidation on that other, specific control to
false. This will allow that control to gain focus without firing the
Validating event on the text box that the user is leaving. Sort of.

You can read about all the gory details of CausesValidation and
validating in this thread:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms.controls/browse_frm/thread/5ea5d67a73414103/3a87446046433a3b

(watch for line wrap on the URL)

The bottom line is that CausesValidation will (with a few caveats)
solve your problem by preventing your Validating event handler from
being called (sort of... like I said, read the other link), so you
don't have to test for which control has focus in your Validating event
handler.

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