While working on in Silverlight I found the need to auto populate a TextBox then shift focus to that TextBox. That was simple to do with the following code.

txtSearch.Focus();
txtSearch.Text = “sometext ”;

But then there is a problem the cursor is at the start of the text box so if a user starts typing they end up adding to the start when I want them to just add on to the end. So after some hunting I found the SelectionStart property of the TextBox, while this may be obvious to people who work in Silverlight and C# all the time it didn’t jump right out at me so I thought it was worth talking about. So by using SelectionStart and I can move the cursor to the end and users can just append to my started search text.

txtSearch.Focus();
txtSearch.Text = “sometext ”;
txtSearch.SelectionStart = txtSearch.Text.Length;

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