Silverlight Tab Stops – IsTabStop

Just found a tricky little quirk with TabStop that caused a fair bit of confusion. It turns out that the default implementation of ContentControl overrides Control, so implements the IsTabStop property, and defaults that value to true.

ContentControl is implemented by the delightful BusyIndicator, so if you have used a BusyIndicator within the scope of a series of input controls you’ll see the Invisible Tab Stop behaviour.

HINT: Using Silverlight Spy shows us where the offending property lies. You’ll need to re-template that to set the IsTabStop property to false.