title: How to make Textbox Focus Prompt Keyboard Input
body: <p>This is my first WPF project and I'm attempting to create an application for my engineers. They will be using a Tablet PC with Windows 8. They execute the application and inspect a machine to verify if it has some issues.</p>
  
  <p>I made this application using winforms but I couldn't get the keyboard input to pop up and let me type in stuff. So I switched to WPF (since I will need to provide a signature capture as well). This is what I was looking for when tapping on the textbox (in red):</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TwM2N.png" alt="Keyboard input goal"></p>
  
  <p>I started by creating a textbox just to see if the keyboard layout would pop up. The only way I could pop up the input panel is by using the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Private Sub TextBox1_TouchDown(sender As Object, e As System.Windows.Input.TouchEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.TouchDown
      Process.Start("TabTip.exe")
  End Sub
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>There has to be an easier way ... I must be missing something completely. Is there another control I can use to make the keyboard input pop up automatically? Without having to provide code?</p>