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The WinForms TabControl provides a simple interface for displaying multiple tabs that arrange content in a compact and organized form in less space. It also provides different tab orientations, text alignment, options to hide or create new tabs, multiline tabs, editable headers, and complete customization options.
Provides an option to display tabs horizontally at the top or bottom and vertically at the left or right. Also provides options to rotate the header text on vertical orientation.
Arrange tabs in a single or multiple lines.
Provides different sets of tab styles to let users choose their own, such as Office Style, Visual Studio, Metro.
Select tabs through keyboard and mouse interaction. Also, the selected tab can be changed by selecting a tab from the drop-down tab list.
Reorder tabs by dragging the tab headers to specific positions with mouse interaction.
Lay out a form in a left-to-right or right-to-left fashion to develop forms for worldwide audience.
Builds Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child forms as tabbed documents as seen in Visual Studio. Tab control supports multiple tab groups with their own active tabs.
Arranges MDI child forms within horizontal or vertical resizable tab groups. Documents can be moved to the next or previous tab groups using the context menu.
Move the tabs between different tab groups by dragging the tab header to a specific tab group with mouse interaction.
Improves user experience by adding custom context menu entries.
All static text in the context menu of TabbedMDIManager can be localized to any desired language.
Easily get started with the WinForms TabControl using a few simple lines of C# code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our WinForms TabControl Example that shows you how to render and configure the WinForms TabControl.
using Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools;
namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
TabControlAdv tabControlAdv = new TabControlAdv();
TabPageAdv tabPageAdv1 = new TabPageAdv();
tabPageAdv1.Text = "Tab1";
TabPageAdv tabPageAdv2 = new TabPageAdv();
tabPageAdv2.Text = "Tab2";
TabPageAdv tabPageAdv3 = new TabPageAdv();
tabPageAdv3.Text = "Tab3";
tabControlAdv.Controls.AddRange(new Control[] { tabPageAdv1, tabPageAdv2, tabPageAdv3 });
this.Controls.Add(tabControlAdv);
}
}
}The Syncfusion WinForms TabControl provides the following:
You can find our WinForms TabControl demo on
GitHub location.
No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue, 5 or fewer developers, and 10 or fewer total employees.
A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.
Documentation
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