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Touch keyboard sample

Shows how apps can influence whether the touch keyboard displays when the user taps on a control with the pen or touch.

Note: This sample is part of a large collection of UWP feature samples. If you are unfamiliar with Git and GitHub, you can download the entire collection as a ZIP file, but be sure to unzip everything to access shared dependencies. For more info on working with the ZIP file, the samples collection, and GitHub, see Get the UWP samples from GitHub. For more samples, see the Samples portal on the Windows Dev Center.

Specifically, this sample shows how:

  • Standard XAML text controls (such as TextBox, RichTextBox, and PaswordBox) display the touch keyboard by default.
  • Controls derived from standard XAML text controls display the touch keyboard by default.
  • Other controls do not display the touch keyboard by default.
  • On the PC, you can request that the touch keyboard display for a custom control by implementing the TextPattern provider interface (ITextProvider) and the ValuePattern provider interface (IValueProvider). Not supported on Phone.
  • You can request that the touch keyboard not display when focus is programmatically placed on a control.

Note In Windows 10, the touch keyboard will not display automatically if a hardware keyboard is connected, or the PC is in Desktop mode and "Automatically show the touch keyboard in windowed apps when there is no keyboard attached to your device" in Settings -> Devices -> Typing is disabled.

Note The Windows universal samples require Visual Studio 2017 to build and Windows 10 to execute.

To obtain information about Windows 10, go to Windows 10

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

System requirements

Client: Windows 10

Server: Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview

Phone: Windows 10. (KeyboardEnabledTextBox not supported; see remarks above.)

Build the sample

  1. Start Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 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 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.