TabControl Control Members

Public Methods

Method	Description
AboutBox	Displays the about box for the control.
GetClientRect	Returns the tab client area bounding coordinates.
HitTest	Returns the TabControl that the user clicked. This can be helpful when determining where the user clicked in the TabControl.
InsertItem	Inserts a new TabControlItem (tab) into the TabControl.
Item	Gets a TabControl item by index.
RemoveAll	Removes all TabControlItem(s) from the TabControl.
RemoveItem	Removes a specific TabControlItem from the TabControl.
SetImageList	Assigns an ImageList to the TabControl. The images in the ImageList are used to display icons in the tab buttons of the tab control.
ShowNavigateButton	Used to specify if and when a specific tab navigation button is displayed in the tab control header.

Public Properties

Property	Description
AllowReorder	Enables/Disables tab reordering. When True, the tabs can be reordered.
Appearance	Gets/Sets the appearance of the tabs.
AutoResizeClient	Specifies whether the TabControl automatically positions and resizes controls in the tab client area when they are attached to a tab.
ClientHeight	Height of Client Area.
ClientLeft	Left of Tab Client Area.
ClientTop	Top of Tab Client Area.
ClientWidth	Width of Client Area.
Color	Gets/Sets the color style of the tabs.
DrawFocusRect	Gets/Sets whether a focus rectangle is drawn around the text caption of a tab button when the tab has focus.
Enabled	Gets/Sets a Boolean value indicating whether the TabControl is enabled/disabled.
EnableMarkup	Allows the use of a XAML snippet to be used for the control.
Font	Gets/Sets the font that will be used to display the text for the control.
HeaderScrollOffset	Gets or sets the scroll offset of the tab buttons in the tab header. This is how much the tabs have been scrolled by pressing the left "<" and right ">" tab navigation buttons.
hWnd	The Handle of the TabControl object.
Icons	The Icons property is a collection of icons that can be used in TabControlItem objects.
ItemCount	Gets/Sets the total number of TabControlItem(s) (tabs) in the TabControl.
OLEDropMode	Returns or sets how a target component handles drop operations.
PaintManager	The tab paint manager is used to customize the appearance of your tabs.
ReCreateReparented	Gets/Sets whether the TabControl elements are aligned to support locales using right-to-left fonts.
RightToLeft	Gets/Sets a value indicating whether the TabControl elements are aligned to support locales using right-to-left fonts.
Selected	Gets/Sets the currently selected tab in the tab control. A tab is selected when it has been clicked or has focus.
SelectedItem	Gets/Sets the currently selected TabControlItem.
ShowCloseItemButton	Specifies whether to show a close button on each individual tab button.
ToolTipContext	Represents the tool tip window that is used to display tool tips.

Events

Event	Description
BeforeItemClick	Occurs when a tab button is clicked, but before the click message is processed by the TabControl.
ItemDblClick	Occurs when a tab button is double-clicked.
ItemOrderChanged	Occurs when the tab button order has changed.
MouseMove	Occurs when the mouse cursor is moved over any part of the TabControl.
MouseUp	Occurs when the tab buttons or the area surrounding the tab buttons (not including the object attached to the tab) has a mouse click that is released. This event is not triggered on single left mouse clicks. This event is triggered on all mouse button clicks except the above noted, and it is triggered on a left button double-click.
NavigateButtonClick	Occurs when a tab navigation button is clicked.
OLEDragDrop	Occurs when a source component is dropped onto a target component when the source component determines that a drop can occur.
OLEDragOver	Occurs when one component is dragged over another.
ReCreated	Occurs when a new TabControl is created.
SelectedChanged	Occurs when a different TabControlItem is selected in the TabControl.

TabControl Control Members

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TabControl Control Members

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