Question

I put a toolstrip on the form, added some controls to it such as buttons, labels and a text box…now I want the text input focus be inside abd blinking in the text box of that toolstrip,

I tried with these two commands in a form_load evet but didn’t work:

toolStripTextBox1.Focus();
// or
toolStripTextBox1.Select();

Answer 1

Add the event handler for your form’s Shown event and you can try with this code:

static bool first = true;
private void Form1_Shown(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
       if (first)
       {
            toolStripTextBox1.Focus();
            first = false;
       }
}