how to put focus on TextBox when the form load

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I have in my C  program textBox  I need that when the program start  the focus will be on the textBox  I try this on Form Load   MyTextBox Focus      but it wont work

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check your tab order and make sure the textbox is set to zero

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use form shown event and set  MyTextBox Focus

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You cannot set focus to a control if it has not been rendered  Form Load   occurs before the controls are rendered   Go to the form s events and double click the  Shown  event  In the form s shown event handler call the control Focus   method        private void myForm Shown object sender  EventArgs e                   Call textbox s focus method         txtMyTextbox Focus

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I solved my problem with changing  TabIndex  property of TextBox  I set 0 for TextBox that I want to focus it on Form when the program start

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The reason you can t get it to work is because the Load event is called before the form is drawn or rendered   It like telling a pizza place how to make your pizza  and then asking them to send you a picture of how much pepperoni is on your pizza before they made it   using System  using System Windows Forms   namespace Testing       public partial class TestForm   Form               public TestForm                         InitializeComponent                 Load    TestForm Load               VisibleChanged    TestForm VisibleChanged               Shown    TestForm Shown               Show                        private void TestForm Load object sender  EventArgs e                        MessageBox Show  This event is called before the form is rendered                        private void TestForm VisibleChanged object sender  EventArgs e                        MessageBox Show  This event is called before the form is rendered                        private void TestForm Shown object sender  EventArgs e                        MessageBox Show  This event is called after the form is rendered                 txtFirstName Focus

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Set Tabstop to True and TabIndex to the minimum to the control on which you need focus   e g  If you have 2 TextBoxes   TextBox1 and TextBox2  set Tabstop to True for both and TabIndex to 0 and 1 respectively  When the form loads  the focus will be on TextBox1 and on the press of  Tab  key  the focus will move to TextBox2

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on your form  go to properties and make sure that  TopMost  property is set to true  that will solve your problem

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Set theActiveControl property of the form and you should be fine   this ActiveControl   yourtextboxname

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Set Tab Index property s value   0 and then in form load function write    YourTextboxName Focus      It will work

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If you only want to set the focus the first time the form is shown  try handling the Form Shown event and doing it there  Otherwise use Control VisibleChanged

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Textbox Focus    Tries  to set focus on the textbox element  In case of the element visibility is hidden for example  Focus   will not work  So make sure that your element is visible before calling Focus

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In jquery set focus     function           txtBox1   focus          or in Javascript you can do   window onload   function       document getElementById  txtBox1   focus

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You could try    MyTextBox Select     According to the documentation      The Select method activates the control if the control s Selectable   style bit is set to true in ControlStyles  it is contained in another   control  and all its parent controls are both visible and enabled    You can first check if the control can be selectable by inspecting the MyTextBox CanSelect property

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Finally i found the problem i was using metro framework and all your solutions will not work with metroTextBox  and all your solutions will work with normal textBox in load   show   visibility change  events  even the tab index   0 is valid        private void Form1 VisibleChanged object sender  EventArgs e        private void Form1  Shown object sender  EventArgs e      private void Form1 Load object sender  EventArgs e                 textBox1 Select            this ActiveControl textBox1          textBox1 Focus

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it s worked for me  set tabindex to 0 this yourtextbox TabIndex   0

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You can use either textBox1 select    or the TabIndex in textbox setting  TabIndex 0 focoused first

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