How to focus cursor in a textbox when form load

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I want when my windows form load cursor by default fpcus on a textbox named "ItemCodetextBox".
I have used tab Control and the textbox is on the tab control.
I have witten the following code on the form load event. But it does not work.
ItemCodetextBox.Focus();
Please help me.

Posted 7-Feb-14 18:18pm

Sumon562

Updated 7-Feb-14 18:51pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2014-02-07T19:30:00

You cannot directly focus a control on form load (by the way, this is a fake event, you don't have to use it; it is added only to provide the same mechanism of adding handlers as for "real" events", using it is equivalent to adding code at the end of a form constructor). This is because only a visible control can be focused.

You can focus it when a form is shown for the first time. If written in the load event handler or a constructor, it would look like

C#

this.FormShown += (sender, eventArgs) => { myControl.Focus(); }

Alternatively, you can set "logical focus", which can be done in advance, in contrast to "real" focus:

C#

this.ActiveControl = myControl;

—SA

Peter Leow · Answer 2 · 2014-02-07T18:25:00

Solution 1

Ask Google[^]

Posted 7-Feb-14 18:25pm

Peter Leow

Updated 7-Feb-14 18:28pm

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Karthik_Mahalingam · Answer 3 · 2014-02-07T18:37:00

Solution 3

Try this

C#

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
      {
          ItemCodetextBox.TabIndex = 0;
          ItemCodetextBox.Focus();
      }

Posted 7-Feb-14 18:37pm

Karthik_Mahalingam

Updated 7-Feb-14 21:16pm

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King Fisher · Answer 4 · 2014-02-07T18:27:00

Solution 2

try this

Posted 7-Feb-14 18:27pm

King Fisher