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Unable to edit form using DevExpress

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Does anyone know how I can manipulate the objects in this form? I would really like to be able to edit some of the tabs. It's using DevExpress v14.1

To edit the tabs, just click the tab control and use the design time helper icon on the tab controls upper right corner. There, you can find a link called "Tab pages".
Alternatively you can just select the tab control by clicking and head over to the properties window (press F4) as you can do with every control. There, you find a property called TabPages.
If you want to edit the controls on the tabs, just do so by selecting them per mouse click and change the controls' properties on the properties window (press F4).

The issue was that DevExpress wasn't installed on my system and thus wouldn't let me modify the elements. Simply installing the right version fixed the issue.

How do I keep my winforms controls from overlapping when I expand the application?

I have a pretty simple winforms application. It contains a rich edit box, embedded browser, progress bar, a few buttons etc.
I have the anchors on the controls set to expand in all directions.
When expanding up and down, however, the controls will overlap one another. How do I prevent this from happening?
Thanks

Your best bet is to add a TableLayoutPanel to your form which contains the "layout grid" this should be docked to the form, then you can add your controls into the cells in the table (they can cover multiple rows and columns so you can get the layout you want).

You must set the property Autosize=true on every control, especially on the main form.
Note that some controls like TabControl have this property, but you can't see it with intellisense (Attribute Browseable=false).

Keep Label on top of TabControl .NET

I have a label that I need to stay on top of my TabControl as I switch from tab to tab. I have tried calling the Label's BrintToFront method in the SelectedIndexChanged Event of the Tab Control but this has no effect. I also simply tried right clicking my label in design view and selecting "Bring to Front" but again, this had no effect.
When I switch to my second tab it drops behind the TabControl however, when I go back to my first tab it is in front again.
I placed the label itself on the Form rather than on the TabControl.
I am working in C#. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

You should make sure that your label is not located inside a specific tab. To verify this you need to look at the nesting inside the 'document outline' (ctl+alt+T)
If it is I recommend;
dragging it just outside the tab control (you can also use the document outline).
then 'bring it to the front'.
and then use the arrow keys, or location property, to move it back into position.

Set visibility on single tab in tabcontrol (winforms)

Is there a way to set the visibility of a single tab in a tabcontrol? I thought something simple like this should work, but does not seem to to anything.
tabControl1.TabPages[1].Visible = false;
tabControl1.Refresh();
There will be a main tab that always shows but I want to have other tabs that I can "turn on\off". I don't want to remove the tabs since I may need to show then again.
fk

Times haven't changed since 2.0:
StackOverflow - How to hide TabPage from TabControl

You can remove the tabControl page
this.tControl1.TabPages.Remove(this.tControl1.TabPages["tabPageName"]);

It's obviously not part of the standard Windows Forms library, but the Infragistics UltraTabControl has (among other features) a Visible property for each tab page.

How to design the UI for settings according to different options in C# WinForm?

This is a .NET winform application question.
I come to this design from time to time. A simple form. On top of the form you have a list of options to select. According to different option chosen, the body of the form displays a unique panel of setting detail.
How to design this UI in Visual Studio neatly? I have two ideas. First idea is to have many panels, each panel contains setting controls. In runtime, hide all panels but the one according to the selection of option. In this solution, it is hard to organize the controls of the form in VS designer. You need to set the form big to hold all the panels. Panels are put one next to each other. There are many runtime loading code to write. For example, when loading the form, you need to hide panels, reset the form size. When you pick an option, you need to relocate the panels and show/hide them. Tedious!
Second idea is to use TabControl. TabControl is good because the tabs are well organized for you. You don't need to relocate panels and resize the form. All you need to do in runtime is to select the right tab according to options. One thing, you need to hide parts of the TabControl from user because after all it is not a real TabControl. Hiding the tab buttons of the TabControl is not hard but I find that after that there is always a big gap between the tab area and the following part on the form.
Dose anyone have a decent way of designing the UI? Maybe not using panels or TabControls but some smarter way? If TabControl is used most of the time, how to hide and show the tab parts of the TabControl and how to set the margin and border size of the TabControl so no big gap exists? Many thanks to any answer and suggestion.

When I need to do this, I put each group of controls in its own UserControl, and then I can use something else to switch between them. See, for example, Implementing a paged Options dialog on my blog.

I suggest you create UserControls for each of your "setting details" and when the user selects an option you load the accordant UserControl. You might have to adjust the forms size, but therefore you can easily manage all the "setting details" in your IDE.

Using user control is a good way to solve your problem. But you need set them probably in panels and play with properties "Visible" and "Dock".
You don't need to Dock them at "Fill" in design mode. You can set this property à runtime or when needed.
Hope this help.

Sounds like you need some design pattern.
Why not create a UI factory that returns your UI objects as needed/required?