Helo Irina,

I followed the steps you suggested and was unable to reproduce the behavior you're describing. I added an UltraComboEditor to my Form with year values in it. However, the item selected remains in focus when I click on the UltraComboEditor. 

I have attached the sample project I used to test this.  Please test this project on your PC; whether or not it works correctly may help indicate the nature of this problem.

If the project does not work correctly, then the change in behavior is due to differences in your environment from mine and these differences can be anything from operating system version to the specific version of the Infragistics DLL versions used.  My test was performed using version 20172.1000 in Infragistics for WindowsForms in 2017 Volume2.  Please provide more details about your machine and version of the assemblies that you are referencing so that I can modify the environment that I am testing in to match yours.

If the project does show the product feature working correctly, then more information will be needed to reproduce the issue in a sample that can be used for debugging.  It will help if you can provide a small, isolated sample application that demonstrates the behavior you are seeing.  This can be done by either making the sample that I provided more like your application or by isolating the behavior from your application by removing dependencies on any third parties or databases.

Please let me know if I can provide any further assistance.

Sincerely,
Sahaja Kokkalagadda
Associate Software Developer

UltraComboEditorSample.zip