How can I make a specific TabItem gain focus on a TabControl without click event?

Question

How can I tell my TabControl to set the focus to its first TabItem, something like this:

PSEUDO-CODE:

((TabItem)(MainTabControl.Children[0])).SetFocus();

Answer 1

How about this?

MainTabControl.SelectedIndex = 0;

Answer 2

this.tabControl1.SelectedTab = this.tabControl1.TabPages["tSummary"];

I've found it's usually a best practice to name your tabs and access it via the name so that if/when other people (or you) add to or subtact tabs as part of updating, you don't have to go through your code and find and fix all those "hard coded" indexes. hope this helps.