.net – Setting initial control focus in Silverlight

netsilverlightsilverlight-2.0xaml

I'm looking for a way to automatically set the initial focus on a Silverlight UserControl to a specific control. I have a login page with a user name textbox and I'd like to have it so that as soon as the user goes to the page their cursor is already positioned and waiting in the username textbox instead of having to make them click the box.

I tried calling .Focus in the UserControl's Loaded event but with no success. Anyone know how to do this?

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public MainPage()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    this.Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(MainPage_Loaded);
}

void MainPage_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    HtmlPage.Plugin.Focus();
    MyTextBox.Focus();
}

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<UserControl x:Class="XWord.Square"  
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"   
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"  
FontSize="30"   
Width="100" Height="100" 
DataContext="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}">

Now you can bind the individual elements to the properties of the usercontrol:

<TextBlock x:Name="Label" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" 
Text="{Binding LabelText}"/>  
<TextBox x:Name="Content" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" 
Text="{Binding ContentCharacter}" BorderThickness="0" />

For SL 2.0, you'll need to set the DataContext on the UserControl's Loaded event handler.

private void UserControl_Loaded( object sender, RoutedEventArgs e ) {
    LayoutRoot.DataContext = this;
}

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This is the extension method I use for instead of Focus:

    public static void BackgroundFocus(this UIElement el)
    {
        Action a = () => el.Focus();
        el.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(DispatcherPriority.Background, a);
    }

No need to create a timer.

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