Setting Focus on a Control within a ControlTemplate in WPF

Question

In an application I\'m working on, we have a bunch of custom controls with their ControlTemplates defined in Generic.xaml.

For instance, our custom textbox would loo

Answer 1

Within your control template you can add a Trigger that sets the FocusedElement of the StackPanel's FocusManager to the textbox you want focused. You set the Trigger's property to {TemplateBinding IsFocused} so it fires when the containing control is focused.