Tab Control

in this video we are going to see how to use a tab control in a windows forms

application a tab control is usually a combination of bunch of tab pages and

each tab page can host different user interfaces so to understand a tab

control better let's drag and drop a tab control from your toolbox to the onto

the forms here is a tab control you drag and drop onto a form as you can see by

default a tab control is created with two pages that one page one tap page two

before anything else what I'm going to do is I'm going to dock this to fill so

it fills my whole form right here now if you click on this little handle you'll

see add tab remove tab so I can actually add one more tab here as you can tap it

so you add one more tab here so I have now four tab pages now purpose of these tab pages is say for example if you want to have a different page for different kind of functionality you can put all those controls on one tab

If you have a different functionality you can put on tab page 2 and 3 and so on

So let's create bunch of controls on tab page 1 say Now you can add any controls you want

I'm just putting few controls to just show you how it works you know now one

thing you want to know is if you click on these tab pages you still see in

properties tab control so if you want to change these tab pages properties by

separately what you do to do is in properties you go and select tab page 1 as soon as you select tab page 1 now I can set properties of this tab page one right here so I can say background color I can

change border style background color let's say change to yellow as you can see

background of this tab page one is changed to yellow and I can say border

style to say fix single and I can actually set other properties I'll say

this say 12 okay all right so this font is not supported so what we can do is

pick something else that sounds good there you go so now before we go back

just quickly let's go and run this sample hit F5 as soon as you hit F5 you

will see your form looks like this and you'll see tab page 1, tab page 2, tab page 3 and

if you click on these you will see different controls on different tab pages

So that's major function of a tab control. Now besides that what you want is say if you want to have a click button control click button event handler You just use all these controls are handled separately

So there is no other functionality you want to do. This is just basic functionality

Now let's go back to our tab control. Now say you want to add there is a tabs property actually

pages property what this does this represent all of these tab pages so you know how we saw add and

remove tab pages if you click on this this launches the tab page collection editor here what you can

do is you can add remove and set properties of your tab pages again so this is another way you

can add and remove so properties and functionality of tab pages and dynamically you can also access

all tab pages using the tab pages property. So this was a quick introduction of how to use a tab page in a Windows Phone's application

In my next series I'm going to delve into more details of tab pages