How to intercept the TAB key press to prevent standard focus change in C#

Question

Normally when pressing the TAB key you change the focus to the next control in the given tab order. I would like to prevent that and have the TAB key do something else. In m

Answer 1

You can try this code on your KeyDown event:

if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Tab) {
  //your logic
  e.SuppressKeyPress = true;
}

If the button clicked is Tab, then do any custom logic you want, then call SuppressKeyPress to stop the KeyPress event from firing and invoking the normal Tab logic for you.