Adding and removing tab pages at runtime in C# - c#

I have a program that I want each person to have their own tab, each tab would be identical, however I would like to remove a tab if I need to.
private void addPerson(string name)
{
TabPage tmp = new TabPage();
ListView tmpList = new ListView();
Button tmpButton = new Button();
this.SuspendLayout();
this.tabFrame.SuspendLayout();
tmp.SuspendLayout();
tmpList.SuspendLayout();
tmpButton.SuspendLayout();
...
//build the controll itself
tmp.Controls.Add(tmpButton);
tmp.Controls.Add(tmpList);
tmp.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(4, 22);
tmp.Name = name.Replace(' ', '_');
tmp.Padding = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3);
tmp.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(284, 240);
tmp.TabIndex = 3;
tmp.Text = name;
tmp.UseVisualStyleBackColor = true;
//add it to frame
this.tabFrame.Controls.Add(tmp);
tmpButton.ResumeLayout(true);
tmpList.ResumeLayout(true);
tmp.ResumeLayout(true);
this.tabFrame.ResumeLayout(true);
this.ResumeLayout(true);
{
Name will be in the form "Scott Chamberlain" so I remove the spaces and use underscores for the name field. I can add tabs fine, they show up correctly formated, however when I try to remove the tab using the code:
private void removePerson(string name)
{
this.SuspendLayout();
this.tabFrame.SuspendLayout();
this.tabFrame.Controls.RemoveByKey(name.Replace(' ', '_'));
this.tabFrame.ResumeLayout(true);
this.ResumeLayout(true);
}
The tab does not disappear from my program. What am I missing to remove a tab?

(source: codinghorror.com)
Creating a simple TabPage with a specific Name and adding it to Controls or TabPages works and so does removing it with RemoveByKey on both Controls and TabPages.
Is there any code that might later change the name?

Use tabFrame.TabPages instead of tabFrame.Controls, for both the Add() and RemoveByKey() operations.
TabPages is a more specified version of Controls, and if such a situation occurs you are better of with the more specialized option.

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See MSDN for more information.

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//Control.Controls.Add(tb); //Replace this line
myTabPage.Controls.Add(tb);
change
Control.Controls.Add(tb)
to
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Here's my code:
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Where am I making that mistake?
First of all, tbMax's name is not "tbMax", but "txtBoxNoiseMax". So for one, it won't be able to find the TextBox on RemoveByKey.
You're making new controls each time.
As lc already mentioned:
You named your TextBox variable tbMax, but you gave it the name txtBoxNoiseMax. If you take a look into the description of RemoveByKey, you'll see it works on the Name property. So you should change
tbMax.Name = "txtBoxNoiseMax";
into
tbMax.Name = "tbMax";

Problem with dynamic create tabPages in Winforms TabControl

I want to create dynamic tabPages in TabControl. In each tabPage I create dataGridView and i want to fill the entire space of each tabPage with this dataGrid. Here is code, where i do this:
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{
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//
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testCaseCol,
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But it doesn't work, becouse when i resize the main window, data gridView doesn.t change its size (although the dock property is set to fill). Any ideas?
Move the dgw.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill; statement to below the tabControlMutants.TabPages[...].Controls.Add(dgw);line. And maybe below the EndInit(), I'm not sure.
And remove the dgw.Location = ... line because its not needed.
Edit:
I just ran a little test and this basically should work. That means the error is somewhere else, in the code not shown. Maybe in the 'fill rows part'.
I recommend you start removing parts of the code to eliminate the error.
And you do realize you create a Dgv each time a tab is selected, do you? I assume this is demo code.
Remove dgw.AutoSize = true;
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