title: Winform controls not firing events - validating, validated, gotfocus
body: <p>My question is why i cannot get the events of the controls to fire.  My code is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    private void textBox1_GotFocus(object sender, EventArgs e)
      {
          MessageBox.Show("WORKS"); 
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please excuse the messagebox as i ended up creating a new form just for testing purposes.  My plan is when a user clicks onto a textbox it opens a new form as a dialog to select a date and then return to the original form.  But i cannot get the event to fire.</p>
  
  <p>After reading loads of info online including: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.gotfocus%28v=vs.110%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.gotfocus%28v=vs.110%29.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>I cannot see how it is not firing.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Im new to posting on forums so please go gentle with me.</p>