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How to change the TabStyle of the WinForms Docking Manager?
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Applying the Tabstyle
There is no straight method or property to achieve this. but this can be achieved by getting the DockTabControl object from DockHostController and apply the TabStyle for the DockTabControl. Please refer the below code snippet which illustrates this:
C#
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHost dhost = this.panel1.Parent as Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHost;
Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHostController dhc = dhost.InternalController as
Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHostController;
if (dhc.ParentController is Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabController)
{
//Accessing the DockTabControl from the DockHostController
Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabControl docktab = (dhc.ParentController as
Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabController).TabControl;
//Applying the TabStyle to the DockTabControl
docktab.TabStyle = typeof(Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.OneNoteStyleRenderer);
}
}
VB
Private Sub button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles button1.Click Dim dhost As Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHost = CType(IIf(TypeOf Me.panel1.Parent Is Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHost, Me.panel1.Parent, Nothing), Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHost) Dim dhc As Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHostController = CType(IIf(TypeOf dhost.InternalController Is Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHostController, dhost.InternalController, Nothing), Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockHostController) If TypeOf dhc.ParentController Is Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabController Then 'Accessing the DockTabControl from the DockHostController Dim docktab As Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabControl = CType(IIf(TypeOf dhc.ParentController Is Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabController, dhc.ParentController, Nothing), Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.DockTabController).TabControl 'Applying the TabStyle to the DockTabControl docktab.TabStyle = GetType(Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.OneNoteStyleRenderer) End If End Sub
Sample: http://help.syncfusion.com/support/samples/KB/Tools.Windows/TDTabStyle/TabStyle.zip
