Set the focus on a textbox in xaml wpf

Question

Despite some posts on this forum and others i cannot find something that tells me how to set the focus on a TextBox.

I have a userControl with many labe

Answer 1

For completeness, there is also a way to handle this from code behind (e.g. in the case of controls that, for whatever reason, are created dynamically and don't exist in XAML). Attach a handler to the window's Loaded event and then use the ".Focus()" method of the control you want. Bare-bones example below.

public class MyWindow
{
    private VisualCollection controls;
    private TextBox textBox;

    // constructor
    public MyWindow()
    {
        controls = new VisualCollection(this);
        textBox = new TextBox();
        controls.Add(textBox);

        Loaded += window_Loaded;
    }

    private void window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        textBox.Focus();
    }
}