WinForms TabControl | Vertical Tab Control

Overview

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.

Tab Styles

Tab orientation

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.

Multiline tabs

Arrange tabs in a single or multiple lines.

Appearance

Provides different sets of tab styles to let users choose their own, such as Office Style, Visual Studio, Metro.

Tab selection

Select tabs through keyboard and mouse interaction. Also, the selected tab can be changed by selecting a tab from the drop-down tab list.

Reordering tabs

Reorder tabs by dragging the tab headers to specific positions with mouse interaction.

Right-to-left

Lay out a form in a left-to-right or right-to-left fashion to develop forms for worldwide audience.

Multiple-Document Interface (MDI) tabs

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.

Tab groups

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.

Reordering between tab groups

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.

Localization

All static text in the context menu of TabbedMDIManager can be localized to any desired language.

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