I have a tab control with tabs on it in a windows application. I have already created some pages. Can I make these pages display on tabs of the tab control?
Thanks in advance.
Make Usercontrols of your pages and add them as TabPages
edit:
To add forms to a TabControl, you will first want to set a Panel inside of a page in the TabControl. Then, do the following in the constructor of the form with the TabControl:
FormToLoad formToLoad = new FormToLoad();
formToLoad.TopLevel = false;
panelInTabPage.Controls.Add(formToLoad);
formToLoad.Show();
You may also want to individually style your forms so that they don't show window chrome.
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I created one emulator for one device, so each time the user clicks on the button I am creating one new form, and each form represents new devices.
now I am looking for another option by which inside my main form I can create multiple tabs (instead of multiple forms) which has controls like button, dropdown, text box, grid view.
and the user can navigate between tabs, create a new tab dynamically, use controls inside of the tab.
any suggestion ??
Just use the TabControl on my 'main form'. and added tab pages at runtime.
tabControl1.TabPages.Add("New Tab");
placed an entire form inside a tab control ...this code will create a new instance of a form and place it in the last tab of a tab control:
frmDevice dev = new frmDevice();
dev.TopLevel = false;
dev.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
dev.Parent = tabControl1.TabPages[tabControl1.TabCount - 1];
dev.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
dev.Show();
Reference :https://www.codeproject.com/Answers/5246227/Create-dynamic-tabs-and-use-control-of-tabs-in-csh#answer1
so I have a Homepage on one of the TabPages on winform TabControl. I have a button, that adds a new tab using this Tabs.TabPages.Add("Homepage");
But TabPages.Add() just adds a new blank page, how would i clone my HomePage on the new tab? For instance, if my homepage has a button "Click me", when i open a new tab, I want it to have the same button "Click me" linked to the same event "ClickMe_click". Like a Chrome Tab control. I couldn't find any event or method built in for TabControl on msdn, unless i missed it.
Any help or hint or suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks.
You can't clone a tabpage so easily. One can try but the recommended way is:
Create a UserControl and add all the controls you want on your page. Make it Dock=Fill and add any code that connects the controls. You can layout as freely as you would in a form or a tabpage..
Whenever you want another page of this type, add a new tabpage and add an instance of the UserControl to its Controls collection.
Note: All controls on your UserControl by default are private. This is not really different from placing them on the tabpage directly. But now they are private members of the UC class, so your form and its code can't access them.
Looks like a problem when you're new to it. But if you look at it right, it is a good oportunity to create a leaner & cleaner interface.
Solution 1: Change the control modifiers to public as needed
Solution 2: Add properties to expose those data you really want to expose.
Also note: You can do all layout but can do so only in the UC designer. After adding to a form or tabpage there will be no embedded designer..
I am doing my college project onclick event I do not want to open a new form but show the component in the same form by disabling the components of the previous option.
For instance, if I click on ADD button, it will open a new form with details to be added to save.
But, I want to show all those components of ADD form in the same form where click event occurs.
My design is something like, all options will be in left hand side and the result / form with component has to be displayed in the right hand side without opening a new form.
Use Panels.
The Panel Control is a container control to host a group of similar child controls. One of the major uses I have found for a Panel Control is when you need to show and hide a group of controls. Instead of show and hide individual controls, you can simply hide and show a single Panel and all child controls.
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Use Panel Control
Add multiple panels one over the other, like a stack.
Either use:
panel1.Visible=false ; panel2.Visible=true on button click
panel1.Enabled=false ; panel2.Enabled=true on button click
according to your design
Refer this video: link
I have a main silverlight control named MainPage.xaml in an asp.net web site.
I want to dynamically add and remove control at run time.
So,
I have created another control Top10.xaml and added to selected canvas area on MainPage.xaml as described on this page(Click Me):
Now i need to modify Top10 visibility in MainPage.xaml dynamically when a button is clicked on MainPage.xaml using C# code in MainPage.xaml.cs.
Can anybody help me out?
Thanks
for programmability you might wanna set an id for the control u declare in xaml.
you could say x:Name="top10" or something similar.
on the click event of the button you could use the code below
top10.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed; // to hide
top10.Visibility = Visibility.Visible; // to show
Hope this helps.
I have asked the question "Is there something like master page in desktop applications?" Now I am in position that I have to extend the question. Thanks for understanding.
I have add one MDI master form into my project and several inherited forms that inherit MDI master one. I was using this code.
private void searchToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
foreach (Form child in this.MdiChildren)
{
child.Close();
}
Search childSearchForm = new Search();
childSearchForm.MdiParent = this;
childSearchForm.Text = "Search ";
childSearchForm.Show();
}
This code is triggered when I press some button on master form and the new in this case Search form is opened inside master.
Now my question is the right way to build desktop applications or there is some other more elegant way where content of user interface can be dynamic and switch from view to view by clicking on the buttons inside. For instance clicking on "Search" button on some search form will take you to search results grid, all that happening in one master form.
And if this is right way (which I doubt) how can I achieve to open other inside forms by clicking on buttons inside them. Also if I put some controls on masterpage they will appear two times in master form and in inherited form.
Thanks.
PS
I am using Visual Studio 2008 and MS SQL 2005.
If you are only wanting to show one view at a time you could create a new user control for each view you require. e.g One for your search results.
Then you could add a panel and clear the controls contained within the panel and add the new one to display the view you are after.
Or as described, the other option is to use a tab control, hide the tabs and set the visible index programatically.
Not sure how you would easily do this in winforms, but in WPF you could create a navigation app - a link driven navigation similar to a web browser experience but still a stand alone application. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/cc514215.aspx for details of how to get started.