From 0252c789972418e2f1e1c88fa1c04fc2afbfcb38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ethan Balakumar <76022348+etbala@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:48:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Terminal receives focus on drag n drop (#20003)

### Summary
Updates terminal to gain foreground focus when a user drags and drops a
file into the terminal.

### Changes
Updates the `DragDropHandler` to call `SetForegroundWindow`.

### Validation
* Built and deployed locally
* Manually verified terminal gains focus when dragging and dropping

Closes #19934

(cherry picked from commit a1a43a4ff584e471a296ee3fc47f34e6e486503d)
Service-Card-Id: PVTI_lADOAF3p4s4BQX0-zgpBND8
Service-Version: 1.25
---
 src/cascadia/TerminalControl/TermControl.cpp | 5 +++++
 src/interactivity/win32/windowproc.cpp       | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/cascadia/TerminalControl/TermControl.cpp b/src/cascadia/TerminalControl/TermControl.cpp
index f800cf1a29..c62549c6b6 100644
--- a/src/cascadia/TerminalControl/TermControl.cpp
+++ b/src/cascadia/TerminalControl/TermControl.cpp
@@ -3088,6 +3088,11 @@ namespace winrt::Microsoft::Terminal::Control::implementation
             co_return;
         }
 
+        if (const auto hwnd = reinterpret_cast<HWND>(OwningHwnd()))
+        {
+            SetForegroundWindow(hwnd);
+        }
+
         const auto weak = get_weak();
 
         if (e.DataView().Contains(StandardDataFormats::ApplicationLink()))
diff --git a/src/interactivity/win32/windowproc.cpp b/src/interactivity/win32/windowproc.cpp
index 35ef5fef4e..a4f46c29ec 100644
--- a/src/interactivity/win32/windowproc.cpp
+++ b/src/interactivity/win32/windowproc.cpp
@@ -951,6 +951,11 @@ LRESULT Window::_HandleGetDpiScaledSize(UINT dpiNew, _Inout_ SIZE* pSizeNew) con
 // - <none>
 void Window::_HandleDrop(const WPARAM wParam) const
 {
+    if (const auto hwnd = GetWindowHandle())
+    {
+        SetForegroundWindow(hwnd);
+    }
+
     const auto drop = reinterpret_cast<HDROP>(wParam);
     Clipboard::Instance().PasteDrop(drop);
     DragFinish(drop);