How to hide TabPage from TabControl

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How to hide TabPage from TabControl in WinForms 2 0

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Variant 1

In order to avoid visual klikering you might need to use:

bindingSource.RaiseListChangeEvent = false

or

myTabControl.RaiseSelectedIndexChanged = false

Remove a tab page:

myTabControl.Remove(myTabPage);

Add a tab page:

myTabControl.Add(myTabPage);

Insert a tab page at specific location:

myTabControl.Insert(2, myTabPage);

Do not forget to revers the changes:

bindingSource.RaiseListChangeEvent = true;

or

myTabControl.RaiseSelectedIndexChanged = true;

Variant 2

myTabPage.parent = null;
myTabPage.parent = myTabControl;

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Create a new empty class and past this inside it   using System Windows Forms   namespace ExtensionMethods       public static class TabPageExtensions                public static bool IsVisible this TabPage tabPage                        if  tabPage Parent    null                  return false              else if  tabPage Parent Contains tabPage                   return true              else                 return false                     public static void HidePage this TabPage tabPage                        TabControl parent    TabControl tabPage Parent              parent TabPages Remove tabPage                      public static void ShowPageInTabControl this TabPage tabPage TabControl parent                        parent TabPages Add tabPage                       2- Add reference to ExtensionMethods namespace in your form code   using ExtensionMethods    3- Now you can use yourTabPage IsVisible    to check its visibility  yourTabPage HidePage    to hide it  and yourTabPage ShowPageInTabControl parentTabControl   to show it

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I combined the answer from  Jack Griffin and the one from  amazedsaint  the dotnetspider code snippet respectively  into a single TabControlHelper    The TabControlHelper lets you    Show   Hide all tab pages Show   Hide single tab pages Keep the original position of the tab pages Swap tab pages     public class TabControlHelper       private TabControl  tabControl      private List lt KeyValuePair lt TabPage  int gt  gt   pagesIndexed      public TabControlHelper TabControl tabControl                 tabControl   tabControl           pagesIndexed   new List lt KeyValuePair lt TabPage  int gt  gt              for  int i   0  i  lt  tabControl TabPages Count  i                           pagesIndexed Add new KeyValuePair lt TabPage  int gt   tabControl TabPages i   i                          public void HideAllPages                 for  int i   0  i  lt   pagesIndexed Count  i                           tabControl TabPages Remove  pagesIndexed i  Key                        public void ShowAllPages                 for  int i   0  i  lt   pagesIndexed Count  i                           tabControl TabPages Add  pagesIndexed i  Key                        public void HidePage TabPage tabpage                if    tabControl TabPages Contains tabpage   return           tabControl TabPages Remove tabpage              public void ShowPage TabPage tabpage                if   tabControl TabPages Contains tabpage   return          InsertTabPage GetTabPage tabpage  Key  GetTabPage tabpage  Value              private void InsertTabPage TabPage tabpage  int index                if  index  lt  0    index  gt   tabControl TabCount              throw new ArgumentException  Index out of Range              tabControl TabPages Add tabpage           if  index  lt   tabControl TabCount - 1              do                               SwapTabPages tabpage    tabControl TabPages  tabControl TabPages IndexOf tabpage  - 1                               while   tabControl TabPages IndexOf tabpage     index            tabControl SelectedTab   tabpage             private void SwapTabPages TabPage tabpage1  TabPage tabpage2                if   tabControl TabPages Contains tabpage1     false     tabControl TabPages Contains tabpage2     false              throw new ArgumentException  TabPages must be in the TabControls TabPageCollection              int Index1    tabControl TabPages IndexOf tabpage1           int Index2    tabControl TabPages IndexOf tabpage2            tabControl TabPages Index1    tabpage2           tabControl TabPages Index2    tabpage1             private KeyValuePair lt TabPage  int gt  GetTabPage TabPage tabpage                return  pagesIndexed Where p   gt  p Key    tabpage  First

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No  this doesn t exist  You have to remove the tab and re-add it when you want it  Or use a different  3rd-party  tab control

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If you are talking about AjaxTabControlExtender then set TabIndex of every tabs and set Visible property True False according to your need   myTab Tabs 1  Visible true false

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Hide TabPage and Remove the Header   this tabPage1 Hide    this tabPage3 Hide    this tabPage5 Hide    tabControl1 TabPages Remove tabPage1   tabControl1 TabPages Remove tabPage3   tabControl1 TabPages Remove tabPage5     Show TabPage and Visible the Header   tabControl1 TabPages Insert 0 tabPage1   tabControl1 TabPages Insert 2  tabPage3   tabControl1 TabPages Insert 4  tabPage5   this tabPage1 Show    this tabPage3 Show    this tabPage5 Show    tabControl1 SelectedTab   tabPage1

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Code Snippet for Hiding a TabPage  private void HideTab1 Click object sender  EventArgs e        tabControl1 TabPages Remove tabPage1       Code Snippet for Showing a TabPage  private void ShowTab1 Click object sender  EventArgs e        tabControl1 TabPages Add tabPage1

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As a cheap work around  I ve used a label to cover up the tabs I wanted to hide   We can then use the visible prop of the label as a substitute   If anyone does go this route  don t forget to handle keyboard strokes or visibility events   You wouldn t want the left right cursor keys exposing the tab you re trying to hide

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Not sure about  Winforms 2 0  but this is tried and proven   http   www mostthingsweb com 2011 01 hiding-tab-headers-on-a-tabcontrol-in-c

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I ve used the same approach but the problem is that when tab page was removed from the tab control TabPages list  it is removed from the tab page Controls list also  And it is not disposed when form is disposed    So if you have a lot of such  hidden  tab pages  you can get windows handle quota exceeded error  and only application restart will fix it

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1 for microsoft  -    I managed to do it this way   it assumes you have a Next button that displays the next TabPage - tabSteps is the name of the Tab control  At start up  save all the tabpages in a proper list  When user presses Next button  remove all the TabPages in the tab control  then add that with the proper index     int step   -1  List lt TabPage gt  savedTabPages   private void FMain Load object sender  EventArgs e           save all tabpages in the list     savedTabPages   new List lt TabPage gt         foreach  TabPage tp in tabSteps TabPages            savedTabPages Add tp             SelectNextStep       private void SelectNextStep         step           remove all tabs     for  int i   tabSteps TabPages Count - 1  i  gt   0   i--                tabSteps TabPages Remove tabSteps TabPages i                  add required tab     tabSteps TabPages Add savedTabPages step       private void btnNext Click object sender  EventArgs e        SelectNextStep        Update    public class TabControlHelper       private TabControl tc      private List lt TabPage gt  pages      public TabControlHelper TabControl tabControl            tc   tabControl          pages   new List lt TabPage gt             foreach  TabPage p in tc TabPages                pages Add p                        public void HideAllPages             foreach TabPage p in pages                tc TabPages Remove p                        public void ShowAllPages             foreach  TabPage p in pages                tc TabPages Add p                        public void HidePage TabPage tp            tc TabPages Remove tp                      public void ShowPage TabPage tp            tc TabPages Add tp

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private System Windows Forms TabControl  tabControl  private System Windows Forms TabPage  tabPage1  private System Windows Forms TabPage  tabPage2          Initialise the controls          hides  tab page 2  tabControl TabPages Remove  tabPage2        shows  tab page 2    if the tab control does not contain tabpage2 if     tabControl TabPages Contains  tabPage2          tabControl TabPages Add  tabPage2

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TabPage pageListe  pageDetay  bool isDetay   false   private void btnListeDetay Click object sender  EventArgs e        if  isDetay                isDetay   false          tc TabPages Remove tpKayit           tc TabPages Insert 0 pageListe             else               tc TabPages Remove tpListe           tc TabPages Insert 0 pageDetay           isDetay   true

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I realize the question is old  and the accepted answer is old  but      At least in  NET 4 0      To hide a tab   tabControl TabPages Remove tabPage     To put it back   tabControl TabPages Insert index  tabPage     TabPages works so much better than Controls for this

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you can set the parent of the tabpage to null for hiding and to show just set tabpage parent to the tabcontrol

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inVisible TabPage page2   tabControl1 TabPages 0   page2 Visible  false        Visible  page2 Visible  true         disable TabPage page2   tabControl1 TabPages 0   page2 Enabled   false         enable page2 Enabled   true        Hide tabCtrlTagInfo TabPages 0  Hide   tabCtrlTagInfo TabPages 0  Show     Just copy paste and try it the above code has been tested in vs2010  it works

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In WPF  it s pretty easy   Assuming you ve given the TabItem a name  e g     lt TabItem Header  Admin  Name  adminTab  Visibility  Hidden  gt   lt  -- tab content -- gt   lt  TabItem gt    You could have the following in the code behind the form    if  user AccessLevel    AccessLevelEnum Admin          adminTab Visibility   System Windows Visibility Visible       It should be noted that a User object named user has been created with it s AccessLevel property set to one of the user-defined enum values of AccessLevelEnum    whatever  it s just a condition by which I decide to show the tab or not

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I also had this question   tabPage Visible is not implemented as stated earlier  which was a great help   1    I found you can override the control and this will work   A bit of necroposting  but I thought to post my solution here for others          System ComponentModel DesignerCategory  Code    public class MyTabPage   TabPage       private TabControl  parent      private bool  isVisible      private int  index      public new bool Visible               get   return  isVisible            set                       if   parent    null   parent   this Parent as TabControl              if   parent    null  return               if   index  lt  0   index    parent TabPages IndexOf this               if  value  amp  amp    parent TabPages Contains this                                 if   index  gt  0   parent TabPages Insert  index  this                   else  parent TabPages Add this                             else if   value  amp  amp   parent TabPages Contains this    parent TabPages Remove this                 isVisible   value              base Visible   value                       protected override void InitLayout                 base InitLayout             parent   Parent as TabControl

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Visiblity property has not been implemented on the Tabpages  and there is no Insert method also   You need to manually insert and remove tab pages   Here is a work around for the same   http   www dotnetspider com resources 18344-Hiding-Showing-Tabpages-Tabcontrol aspx

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public static Action lt Func lt TabPage  bool gt  gt  GetTabHider this TabControl container            if  container    null  throw new ArgumentNullException  container             var orderedCache   new List lt TabPage gt             var orderedEnumerator   container TabPages GetEnumerator            while  orderedEnumerator MoveNext                  var current   orderedEnumerator Current as TabPage              if  current    null                    orderedCache Add current                                    return  Func lt TabPage  bool gt  where    gt                if  where    null  throw new ArgumentNullException  where                 container TabPages Clear                foreach  TabPage page in orderedCache                    if  where page                         container TabPages Add page                                                      Use it like this       var hider   this TabContainer1 GetTabHider        hider  tab    gt  tab Text     tabPage1        hider  tab    gt  tab Text     tabpage2      The original ordering of the tabs is kept in a List that is completely hidden inside the anonymous function   Keep a reference to the function instance and you retain your original tab order

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Solutions provided so far are way too complicated  Read the easiest solution at  http   www codeproject com Questions 614157 How-to-Hide-TabControl-Headers  You could use this method to make them invisible at run time   private void HideAllTabsOnTabControl TabControl theTabControl      theTabControl Appearance   TabAppearance FlatButtons    theTabControl ItemSize   new Size 0  1     theTabControl SizeMode   TabSizeMode Fixed

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Well  if you don t want to mess up existing code and just want to hide a tab  you could modify the compiler generated code to comment the line which adds the tab to the tabcontrol   For example  The following line adds a tab named  readformatcardpage  to a Tabcontrol named  tabcontrol   this tabcontrol Controls Add this readformatcardpage    The following will prevent addition of the tab to the tabcontrol    this tabcontrol Controls Add this readformatcardpage

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