Hi,
I'm also new to ASP.NET 2.0 and had a simular problem.
I had a focus on my desired textbox but since I moved that textbox inside a panel + and moved tat panel in an AJAX UpdatePanel I loose the focus.
When the page loads you can see for 0,5 seconds the cursor in the textbox and than it goes simply away.
First I thought it had to do with the complicated loading mechanisme of AJAX but when I moved the textbox out of...