MouseWheel event doesn't fire when using any control with scrolbars (in C# Windows Forms)

Question

MouseWheel event doesn't fire when I' am using any control (ListBox, Panel, TextBox) with scrollbars.

To reproduce problem:

public class Form1 : Form
 {
  private readonly Button button1;
  private readonly TextBox textBox1;

  private void button1_MouseWheel(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
  {
   ToString(); // doesn't fire when uncomment lines below
  }

  public Form1()
  {
   button1 = new Button();
   textBox1 = new TextBox();
   SuspendLayout();

   button1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(80, 105);
   button1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(75, 23);
   button1.MouseWheel += button1_MouseWheel;
   button1.Click += button1_Click;

   textBox1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(338, 105);
   //textBox1.Multiline = true; // uncomment this
   //textBox1.ScrollBars = ScrollBars.Vertical;  // uncomment this 
   textBox1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(100, 92);

   ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(604, 257);
   Controls.Add(textBox1);
   Controls.Add(button1);
   ResumeLayout(false);
   PerformLayout();
  }

  // Clicking the button sets Focus, but even I do it explicit Focus() or Select()
  // still doesn't work
  private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
  {
   button1.Focus();
   button1.Select();
  }
 }

Answer 1

I was having the same problem, and what worked for me was to add a handler for the event MouseEnter in the control, that one is triggered with or without focus.

private void chart1_MouseEnter(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    chart1.Focus();
}

After that I could get the mouseWheel events with no problems.