TouchKeyboardTextInput

Touch keyboard text input sample

This sample shows how to enable optimized views on the touch keyboard by using input scopes and input types with controls with the TextBox and RichEdit Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) controls. Also, this sample demonstrates spell checking by using the IsSpellCheckEnabled property, and it shows text prediction by using the IsTextPredictionEnabled property.

The input types shown in this sample are:

• URL
• Email
• Password
• Number
• Search
• Telephone

Note The Windows universal samples require Visual Studio 2015 to build and Windows 10 to execute.

To obtain information about Windows 10, go to Windows 10

To obtain information about Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and the tools for developing Windows apps, go to Visual Studio 2015

Related topics

Conceptual

Getting started with apps

Guidelines and checklist for login controls

Guidelines and checklist for touch keyboard

Responding to user interaction

Reference

IsSpellCheckEnabled

IsTextPredictionEnabled

RichEdit

TextBox

Windows.UI.Core

System requirements

Client: Windows 10

Server: Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview

Phone: Windows 10

Build the sample

1. Start Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and select File > Open > Project/Solution.
2. Go to the directory to which you unzipped the sample. Then go to the subdirectory containing the sample in the language you desire - either C++, C#, or JavaScript. Double-click the Visual Studio 2015 Solution (.sln) file.
3. Press Ctrl+Shift+B, or select Build > Build Solution.

Run the sample

The next steps depend on whether you just want to deploy the sample or you want to both deploy and run it.

Deploying the sample

• Select Build > Deploy Solution.

Deploying and running the sample

• To debug the sample and then run it, press F5 or select Debug > Start Debugging. To run the sample without debugging, press Ctrl+F5 or select Debug > Start Without Debugging.