How to set focus to a text box on windows form load?

[Walter]

I want to set focus to a text box on a C# windows form when the form loads.
How can I do this? I want the cursor to be in this text box when the form
loads so the user can just start typing. Below is what I have so far:

private void County_Load(obj ect sender, EventArgs e)
{
txtCounty.Focus ();
}

Thanks for the help

[Mel Weaver]

Do it in the show event

"Walter" <wa********@yah oo.comwrote in message
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>I want to set focus to a text box on a C# windows form when the form loads.
How can I do this? I want the cursor to be in this text box when the form
loads so the user can just start typing. Below is what I have so far:

private void County_Load(obj ect sender, EventArgs e)
{
txtCounty.Focus ();
}

Thanks for the help

[Walter]

Bear with me as I am new to C# (been a DBA for 10 years). How would I do
that in the show event? Thanks.
"Mel Weaver" <Me***********@ Insdirect.comwr ote in message
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Do it in the show event

"Walter" <wa********@yah oo.comwrote in message
news:AD******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

>>I want to set focus to a text box on a C# windows form when the form
loads. How can I do this? I want the cursor to be in this text box when
the form loads so the user can just start typing. Below is what I have so
far:

private void County_Load(obj ect sender, EventArgs e)
{
txtCounty.Focus ();
}

Thanks for the help

[Peter Duniho]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:50:03 -0700, Walter <wa********@yah oo.comwrote:

Bear with me as I am new to C# (been a DBA for 10 years). How would I
do that in the show event? Thanks.

The same way you've already done it for the Load event, except attach your
handler to the Show event instead.

That said, an alternative would be simply to set the TabIndex for the
TextBox to be the lowest TabIndex for the Form (typically, that would be
"0"). Then the framework will simply set the focus to that TextBox
automatically for you.

Pete

[Peter Duniho]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:10:21 -0700, Peter Duniho
<Np*********@nn owslpianmk.comw rote:

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:50:03 -0700, Walter <wa********@yah oo.comwrote:

>Bear with me as I am new to C# (been a DBA for 10 years). How would I
do that in the show event? Thanks.

The same way you've already done it for the Load event, except attach
your handler to the Show event instead.

Er, make that the "Shown" event. Intellisense should make it easy to
figure that out, but just in case... :)