How to set the focus to the tabcontainer text box

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I am using the tabcontainer in my application. In that I am using three tab panels and each tab panel contains lots of text boxes with validation controls. If there was any validation error in any of the tab I need to set the focus for that text boxes inside the tab panels. How to do this one. Can any one help me to solve this problem.

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Posted 24-Oct-11 20:01pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Oct-11 2:11am

Tag it! Forms, Silverlight, WPF, ASP.NET, what?
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-10-24T20:12:00

Solution 1

Call Control.Focus to set keyboard focus. The only problem is: it will throw exception of a control is not visible or enables, same goes for its parent, recursively. In case of tab control, make sure appropriate tab page is selected — use the property SelectedIndex.

—SA

Posted 24-Oct-11 20:12pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov