>>I did force a SetFocus() on one of my control whenever I call the Refresh() method. This solves the problem.
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>>I was wondering, instead of adding a control, is there a way to detect the control #1 in the tab sequence so we can focus on that?
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>You could loop through the Controls() collection looking for the first visible control that has a SetFocus method that is not a grid, but I think that would be a PITA.

The advantages of it is that we will set the focus to the first control of the form, the focus will be on a visible one so we will see and we won't have to handle an extra control to handle that workaround.