I have a dialogbox with two edit controls and i want none of them get the focus (actually the text i displayed in the first edit control is "selected" when i start the app)...

You could create a transparent window on top of the edit controls that will take the focus instead. Or maybe you can subclass the edit controls and push the focus somewhere else whenever you receive the WM_SETFOCUS message.

sort your controls so this control will be first (among active controls)
as alternate you may use "SetFocus" in WM_INITDIALOG processing

Okay, perhaps I misunderstood, I thought the OP wanted to avoid the edit controls ever getting focus even with a mouse click.