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

You can get rid of the hard coding of control name in the code by providing some DependancyProperty and have the same code in controlLoaded or OnApplyTemplate function based on the DependancyProperty. This DependancyProperty's sender will the candidate for .Focus() call.

Answer 2

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.