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

I don't like solutions with setting another tab scope for UserControl. In that case, you will have two different carets when navigating by keyboard: on the window and the another - inside user control. My solution is simply to redirect focus from user control to inner child control. Set user control focusable (because by default its false):

and override focus events handlers in code-behind:

protected override void OnGotFocus(RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    base.OnGotFocus(e);
    MyTextBox.Focus();
}

protected override void OnGotKeyboardFocus(KeyboardFocusChangedEventArgs e)
{
    base.OnGotKeyboardFocus(e);
    Keyboard.Focus(MyTextBox);
}