Setting the TabIndex property in WinForms
winforms
Solution
No, the designer doesn't 'fix' the TabIndex you set. There's an interactive tool to set them. Use View + Tab Order and click the controls in the order you want to tab them.
Problem
Back in the ancient days in VB6, two different controls could not have the same TabIndex. If I tried to assign a control with the same index as another control, the other control's index would be scooted up sequentially in the tab order. Now in .NET, I see 2 controls have the same index. How can this make sense? Is there a utility to easily set the sequence without having to iterate through the property grid?