The touchscreen keyboard is provided by the Windows IoT operating system and needs to be enabled.
Open the web interface based “Windows Device Portal” as above and select: Device Settings > On-screen Keyboard > Set the checkbox to ticked
Make Keyboard appear
Give text box focus
txtMyTextBox.Focus(FocusState.Programmatic);Another method (won’t always work but can be useful sometimes)
InputPane.GetForCurrentView().TryShow();Using a hidden TextBox
You can’t set a text box to not visible and have it still take focus / text entry, but you can achieve the same thing by setting its opacity to 0:
MyTextBox.Opacity = 0;Stopping keyboard appearing
The TextBox class has PreventKeyboardDisplayOnProgrammaticFocus property
Selecting keyboard type
Use input scope to select, e.g.
<TextBox Header="Name" InputScope="Default"/>
<TextBox Header="Email Address" InputScope="EmailSmtpAddress"/>
<TextBox Header="Telephone Number" InputScope="TelephoneNumber"/>
<TextBox Header="Web site" InputScope="Url"/>
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