Setting Focus to a .NET UserControl…?

Question

I\'m creating a custom control derived from UserControl that I would like to set focus to.

The custom control contains a ComboBox control and I draw some strings bes

Answer 1

In some cases it is also desireable to not let the focus move to child elements of a UserControl.
In this case you also need to set ControlStyles.ContainerControl to false.

Public Sub New()
    InitializeComponent()

    Me.SetStyle(ControlStyles.ContainerControl, False)
    Me.SetStyle(ControlStyles.Selectable, True)

End Sub