WPF MVVM KeyBinding not being recognized right away and not always working

Question

For whatever reason, the KeyBindings for my UserControl aren\'t working as soon as my WPF Application loads. They do work after I press a button on the form but not when I s

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this fully answers your question, but most of my keybinding / focus questions are solved by setting Focusable=True on your user control, and then in the code behind, call Focus() on the view's load event.

    

    private void Act_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        Focus();
    }