Setting the background color of a textbox while in GotFocus()

[blakemckenna]

I have been out of IT now for about 4.5 years and am just now getting back into it. I'm also learning C#, even though I can read it a little. So my question is in the Title...how to set the Background Color of a textbox while in the GotFocus() event. Here is what I have so far and it's not working.

[OptionBase1]

That seems overly convoluted.

Why not just:

FName.BackColor = FocusColor;

That is assuming that FocusColor is property declared elsewhere in your code.

[blakemckenna]

I tried that but BackColor didn't even show up in the intellisense. Not sure what's going on. In VB.Net, it's pretty much the same code and that works.

[jmcilhinney]

There is no such property. The TextBox control in Windows Forms has a BackColor property but you're using WPF, so it's a different class with different members. Seems like you might need to do a bit of research on how WPF controls work.

I don't really use WPF but I think you would need to set the Background property, but note that it is type Brush.

[blakemckenna]

I don't want to use WPF either...WinForms still works just fine. I've always thought...don't fix what's not broke!