Can't set focus to a child of UserControl

Question

I have a UserControl which contains a TextBox. When my main window loads I want to set the focus to this textbox so I added Focusable=\"True

Answer 1

Its stupid but it works:

Pop a thread that waits a while then comes back and sets the focus you want. It even works within the context of an element host.

private void ListView_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{

 System.Threading.ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(
                   (a) =>
                        {
                            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100);
                            someUiElementThatWantsFocus.Dispatcher.Invoke(
                            new Action(() =>
                            {
                                someUiElementThatWantsFocus.Focus();

                            }));
                        }
                   );

}