Tips from Scott Guthrie himself

Wow.

This is the cleanest solution to one of ASP.NET most common problems, setting focus:

Scott Guthrie notes in his Blackbelt WebForms presentation:

Sub SetFocus(ByVal controlToFocus As Control)

        Dim scriptFunction As New StringBuilder
        Dim scriptClientId As String

        scriptClientId = controlToFocus.ClientID

        scriptFunction.Append("<script language='javascript'>")
        scriptFunction.Append("document.getElementById('")
        scriptFunction.Append(scriptClientId)
        scriptFunction.Append("').focus();")
        scriptFunction.Append("</script>")

        RegisterStartupScript("focus", scriptFunction.ToString())

End Sub

[Richard Caetano]

The sample is from Scott's new set of slides here.

Richard beat me to it :), Very clean.

[ScottW]

A must read. See ScottGu's post.
The goodness even starts on the first slide: the ~ feature is one of those were you get a shock asking you "how come i did not know this?!".