IP Address in a MaskedTextBox?

c# .net maskedtextbox
Nasreddine picture Nasreddine · Oct 28, 2011 · Viewed 63.8k times · Source

How can I use a MaskedTextBox to prevent the user from entering an invalid IP address? (I want it to behave just like the Windows one).

Answer

Harald Coppoolse picture Harald Coppoolse · Sep 23, 2013

Much simpler than the other answers:

Use System.Net.IPAddress and System.Windows.Forms.MaskedTextBox

set the following properties of the MaskedTextBox:

MaskedTextBox.Mask = ###.###.###.###
MaskedTextBox.ValidatingType = typeof(System.Net.IPAddress);

whenever the text box is validating, event MaskedTextBox.TypeValidationCompleted is raised. The event arguments show the following:

  • Is the typed text acceptable as an IP address? (= does System.Net.IPAddress.TryParse return ok)
  • Description of the error as a string
  • The parsed value (= an object of System.NET.IpAddress
  • The type of the parsed value. Needed if you have several MaskedTextBoxes with different masks

Upon receipt of this event you can decide whether to use the value or notify the user what is wrong with the value.

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