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title: "TabControl Control Overview"
ms.date: "03/30/2017"
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  - "TabControl"
helpviewer_keywords: 
  - "TabControl control [Windows Forms], about TabControl control"
  - "tab pages [Windows Forms], about tab pages"
  - "property pages [Windows Forms], Windows Forms"
  - "Windows Forms dialog boxes [Windows Forms], tabs"
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# TabControl Control Overview (Windows Forms)
The Windows Forms <xref:System.Windows.Forms.TabControl> displays multiple tabs, like dividers in a notebook or labels in a set of folders in a filing cabinet. The tabs can contain pictures and other controls. You can use the tab control to produce the kind of multiple-page dialog box that appears many places in the Windows operating system, such as the Control Panel Display Properties. Additionally, the <xref:System.Windows.Forms.TabControl> can be used to create property pages, which are used to set a group of related properties.  
  
## Working with TabControl  
 The most important property of the <xref:System.Windows.Forms.TabControl> is <xref:System.Windows.Forms.TabControl.TabPages%2A>, which contains the individual tabs. Each individual tab is a <xref:System.Windows.Forms.TabPage> object. When a tab is clicked, it raises the <xref:System.Windows.Forms.Control.Click> event for that <xref:System.Windows.Forms.TabPage> object.  
  
## See also

- <xref:System.Windows.Forms.TabControl>
- [TabControl Control](tabcontrol-control-windows-forms.md)
- [How to: Change the Appearance of the Windows Forms TabControl](how-to-change-the-appearance-of-the-windows-forms-tabcontrol.md)
- [How to: Add a Control to a Tab Page](how-to-add-a-control-to-a-tab-page.md)
- [How to: Add and Remove Tabs with the Windows Forms TabControl](how-to-add-and-remove-tabs-with-the-windows-forms-tabcontrol.md)
- [How to: Disable Tab Pages](how-to-disable-tab-pages.md)
- [Dialog Boxes in Windows Forms](../dialog-boxes-in-windows-forms.md)