You might be looking for the  property. Setting it to true would allow your text boxes to implement the Ctrl+A shortcut (among others). From the documentation:

Use the ShortcutsEnabled property to enable or disable the following shortcut key combinations:

• CTRL+Z

• CTRL+E

• CTRL+C

• CTRL+Y

• CTRL+X

• CTRL+BACKSPACE

• CTRL+V

• CTRL+DELETE

• CTRL+A

• SHIFT+DELETE

• CTRL+L

• SHIFT+INSERT

• CTRL+R

EDIT:

However, the  states:

The  control does not support the CTRL+A shortcut key when the  property value is true.

You will probably have to use another subclass of TextBoxBase, such as , for that to work.

 

 Like other answers indicate, Application.EnableVisualStyles() should be called. Also the TextBox.ShortcutsEnabled should be set to true.

But if your TextBox.Multiline is enabled then Ctrl+A will not work (). Using RichTextBox instead will get around the problem.