n00b: Making Enter do something to a text box

I am reading a pretty good book right now. It was free from MSPress this month: Build a Program Now!:Microsoft Visual Basic 2008.

I've already run into something I want to know about! In one exercise, they have you build a web browser. It's a really simple tool that basically uses the built in WebControl. You then add a text box and a Go button, which you then tie to the text box.

Now, of course, I want to know why tapping ENTER after typing a URL doesn't bring up the web page. :-(

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Public Class Form1

    Private Sub btnGo_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnGo.Click
        MyBrowser.Navigate(txtURL.Text)
    End Sub

    Private Sub txtURL_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles txtURL.TextChanged

    End Sub
End Class

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I had tried to place another "MyBrowser.Navigate(txtURL.Text)" in the txtURL_TextChanged private sub and that DID work... but only in that the browser would attempt to browser after every character. Once, I typed in, say, "CNN.com," CNN would come up whether I tapped Enter or not.

This is not all that discouraging. I am just now getting into it! :)

Use the Keydown event. Not the TextChanged. In the event code, check the key that was pressed and if it was the enter key, then kick off the browser. It will look something like this:

Private Sub txtURL_KeyDown(sender As Object, e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs)
    if e.KeyCode = Key.Return Then
        MyBrowser.Navigate(txtURL.Text)
    End If
End Sub


Check that in an IDE it is from memory so probably not exactly right.