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title: "How to: Retrieve a Text Selection"
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ms.date: "03/30/2017"
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ms.custom: devdivchpfy22
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description: Learn how to retrieve a Text selection.
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dev_langs:
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- "csharp"
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- "vb"
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helpviewer_keywords:
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- "text [WPF], retrieving"
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- "TextBox control [WPF], retrieving text"
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- "retrieving text [WPF]"
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ms.assetid: d5793172-1e11-4a39-9be0-73f336ed858d
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---
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# How to: Retrieve a Text Selection
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This example shows one way to use the <xref:System.Windows.Controls.TextBox.SelectedText%2A> property to retrieve text that the user has selected in a <xref:System.Windows.Controls.TextBox> control.
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## Define a TextBox control
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The following [!INCLUDE[TLA#tla_xaml](../../../includes/tlasharptla-xaml-md.md)] example shows the definition of a <xref:System.Windows.Controls.TextBox> control that contains some text to select, and a <xref:System.Windows.Controls.Button> control with a specified <xref:System.Windows.Controls.Button.OnClick%2A> method.
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In this example, a button with an associated <xref:System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.ButtonBase.Click> event handler is used to retrieve the text selection. When the user clicks the button, the <xref:System.Windows.Controls.Button.OnClick%2A> method copies any selected text in the textbox into a string. The particular circumstances by which the text selection is retrieved (clicking a button), as well as the action taken with that selection (copying the text selection to a string), can easily be modified to accommodate a wide variety of scenarios.
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[!code-xaml[TextBox_MiscCode#_TextBoxSelectTextXAML](~/samples/snippets/csharp/VS_Snippets_Wpf/TextBox_MiscCode/CSharp/Window1.xaml#_textboxselecttextxaml)]
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## OnClick event handler
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The following C# example shows an <xref:System.Windows.Controls.Button.OnClick%2A> event handler for the button defined in the [!INCLUDE[TLA2#tla_xaml](../../../includes/tla2sharptla-xaml-md.md)] for this example.
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[!code-csharp[TextBox_MiscCode#_SelectText](~/samples/snippets/csharp/VS_Snippets_Wpf/TextBox_MiscCode/CSharp/Window1.xaml.cs#_selecttext)]
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[!code-vb[TextBox_MiscCode#_SelectText](~/samples/snippets/visualbasic/VS_Snippets_Wpf/TextBox_MiscCode/VisualBasic/Window1.xaml.vb#_selecttext)]
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## See also
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- [TextBox Overview](textbox-overview.md)
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- [RichTextBox Overview](richtextbox-overview.md)
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