Has anyone else experienced problems setting the focus to a textbox on the form load or after other events? I have problems when the textbox in placed in a tab control. It doesn't want to receive the focus and I am not sure why. When I debug it, I see that the code for it to receive the focus is hit.

I have been able to work around it (with inconsistent results), but it is frustrating when something supposedly as simple as this causes a problem.

A couple of ways that I have worked around it is to select the tab index before setting the focus. Another way is to set the ActiveControl for the form to the textbox I want the focus to and then set focus to the ActiveControl. This seems like more work than I should have to be doing. Any input?

J

Hi Katsarsj, I wanted to thank you for your solution (maybe not the most effective but it is working and it is not really overhead, it is fast statement) I was stuck in the same way and i was frustated as I knew a similar problem with VB6, .net never solved it??? maybe in 2005 version I hope !

can you please give the snipets of code so I can test your solutions? I managed to test the solution of ActiveControl.

Thank again
IRNBRU

Sure.

This worked for one application, but didn't work for another:

'initially set the focus to the first control
tbcMain.SelectedIndex = 0
txtCompany.Focus()
txtCompany.SelectAll()

"tbcMain" is the tab control, "txtCompany" is the textbox.

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In case anyone else is interested, here is the code for setting the ActiveControl:

Me.ActiveControl = txtCompany
Me.ActiveControl.Focus()

This worked on a different one. It would seem that since you can't have two controls with the same name on a form, you should simply be able to use txtTitle.Focus() but it doesn't.

J