How to get text from Masked Text Box without the masked format

June 02, 2014 by Anuraj

.Net .Net 3.0 / 3.5 .Net 4.0 Windows Forms

Today I saw some SO question asked about how to get values from Masked Textbox without the masked format. For those who don’t know what is masked textbox - Uses a mask to distinguish between proper and improper user input.

Masked Textbox - With Phone Number mask property

Here is the code snippet.

//Make sure user completed the entry.
if (txtPhone.MaskFull)
{
    txtPhone.TextMaskFormat = MaskFormat.ExcludePromptAndLiterals;
    MessageBox.Show(txtPhone.Text);
    txtPhone.TextMaskFormat = MaskFormat.IncludePromptAndLiterals;
}

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