Keep window on top and steal focus in WinForms

Question

I realize that this would be COMPLETELY bad practice in normal situations, but this is just for a test app that needs to be taking input from a bar code scanner (emulating a

Answer 1

I struggled with a similar problem for quite a while. After much experimentation and guessing, this is how I solved it:

// Get the window to the front.
this.TopMost = true;
this.TopMost = false;

// 'Steal' the focus.
this.Activate();