Can't set focus to input textbox?

[Troy]

Ok I can rememeber doing this before but for some reason it's not working now.

I want to set my textbox to have the flashing cursor and be ready for input after the form is loaded.

I thought you used focus so I am using this :

txtLastName1.Focus()

But it isn't working. Any ideas? What am I doing wrong?

 

[JohnH]

From Control.Focus Method documentation:

Focus is a low-level method intended primarily for custom control authors. Instead, application programmers should use the Select method or the ActiveControl property for child controls, or the Activate method for forms.

 

[Troy]

From Control.Focus Method documentation:

Sweet that did it thanks John. Seriously The more I know the more I need to know. It's getting harder and harder to keep up with the basics after several incarnations of programming languages.