Textbox SelectAll not working correctly

Question

I have the requirement that whenever a TextBox gets Focus (via Touch, Mouse, Keyboard) that all Text should be selected.

I tried with the GotFocus event and with the OnMouseDown/OnMouseUp (for mouse) events:

if (this.SelectionLength == 0)
{
    this.Focus();
    this.SelectAll();
}

but this is not working in all cases.

Sometimes I need to click twice into a TextBox, sometimes not.

Is the a definitive answer here?

Do you really want mouse clicks to focus all the contents of the textbox? This effectively makes it so you cannot change a single letter of a word, only retype the whole thing. — Kevin DiTraglia, Oct 10 '13 at 12:15
pretty much definitive http://stackoverflow.com/questions/660554/how-to-automatically-select-all-text-on-focus-in-wpf-textbox — Rohit, Oct 10 '13 at 12:16
Sorry for the duplicate question. I can confirm that the linked question is identical (but bad to find via Google) — Florian, Oct 10 '13 at 12:22
While you write a title for your Question SO would have suggested this question to you :) — Sriram Sakthivel, Oct 10 '13 at 12:29
@SriramSakthivel, maybe you should have quickly checked your assumption, before commenting... I just did (out of curiosity) and that other post was *not* suggested, although strangely, it *was* in the close dialog. — Sheridan, Oct 10 '13 at 12:39
@Sheridan Me too tried out of curiosity. Try this(Textbox SelectAll wpf) SO suggests that question — Sriram Sakthivel, Oct 10 '13 at 12:48
@SriramSakthivel, that is strange indeed... maybe *I* should have checked *that* before *I* commented. :) — Sheridan, Oct 10 '13 at 12:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '13 at 12:37

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We have two types of focus availables in WPF logical and Keyboard. for you can use eighter of them

For KeyBoard.

Keyboard.Focus(myControl);

For Logical

 FocusManager.SetFocusedElement(this, myControl);

answered Oct 10 '13 at 12:37

JSJ

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