Key events occur in the following order:

[The 'ordered' type of list has not been implemented in the ECMA stylesheet.]

To handle keyboard events only at the form level and not enable other controls to receive keyboard events, set the KeyPressEventArgs.Handled property in your form's Control.KeyPress event-handling method to true. Certain keys, such as the TAB, RETURN, ESC, and arrow keys are handled by controls automatically. To have these keys raise the Control.KeyUp event, you must override the Control.IsInputKey(Keys) method in each control on your form. The code for the override of Control.IsInputKey(Keys) would need to determine if one of the special keys is pressed and return a value of true.

For more information about handling events, see Consuming Events.

Namespace: System.Windows.Forms
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0