select SearchAsYouType on startup

[David]

Is there a way to have the Search box selected when a window with RadGridView is initialized? I want the user to be able to search straight away, without having to first click on the search box to enter text.

 

[Dinko | Tech Support Engineer]

Hi David,

To focus the search text box initially you can subscribe to the Loaded event of the RadGridView. In the event handler, you can get the TextBox (x:Name="PART_SearchAsYouTypeTextBox") using our ChildrenOfType<T>() extension method. Then you can call the Focus() method to focus the text box. Check the following code snippet.

private void GridView_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    var txtBox = (sender as RadGridView).ChildrenOfType<TextBox>().FirstOrDefault(x=>x.Name == "PART_SearchAsYouTypeTextBox");
    if(txtBox!= null)
    {
        txtBox.Focus();
    }
}

Regards,
Dinko
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[David]

Thanks Dinko - that has worked perfectly!