Keep Focus back to the previous Textbox on failed validation

Question

I want Focus back to the previous Textbox if validation gets failed. I am validating the Textbox control value on lostFocus event. Need some help.

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Keep Focus on Textbox after user tried to move to other control (on failed validation) in winforms, .net 3.5 WEC7

Answer 1

If you attempt to focus an element inside its own LostFocus handler you will face a StackOverflowException, I'm not sure about the root cause (I suspect the focus kind of bounces around) but there is an easy workaround: dispatch it.

private void TextBox_LostFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    var element = (sender as TextBox);
    if (!theTextBoxWasValidated())
    {
        // doing this would cause a StackOverflowException
        // element.Focus();

        var restoreFocus = (System.Threading.ThreadStart)delegate { element.Focus(); };
        Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(restoreFocus);
    }
}

Through Dispatcher.BeginInvoke you make sure that restoring the focus doesn't get in the way of the in-progress loss of focus (and avoid the nasty exception you'd face otherwise)