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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
• How to: Change the Appearance of the Windows Forms TabControl
• How to: Add a Control to a Tab Page
• How to: Add and Remove Tabs with the Windows Forms TabControl
• How to: Disable Tab Pages
• Dialog Boxes in Windows Forms