Custom tabcontrol at design time in WPF

Question

I want to create a tab control with background and tabs header with different colors at design time. Is it possible in WPF?

At design time, I want to add the tabs (Custom Tabpage) in Tab control (Custom tabcontrol)

Any help will be appreciated

Answer 1

You can modify the control template of the TabITem or write a style for TabITem to do this and go on addind tabitems in xaml <TabItem/> as much as you like. A tool like Expression Blend comes in very handy for such things. Take a look at : http://tech.pro/tutorial/730/the-wpf-tab-control-inside-and-out

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Answer 2

There's a collection editor, I suppose maybe this isn't so obvious though.

This is specifically for vs2010 but vs2012 will be similar.

Drag a tab control onto a window.

Click on it to give it focus.

You might have to try different places, but eventually you should see a square in the top left corner with kind of arrows in it.

Right click on it.

Choose properties from the pop up menu thing.

In the properties window thing ( bottom right of vs by default ) you should see items.

It's a collection.

Pick each and do your settings.

These will over-ride any default style, so you could have a default style giving it the right shape or whatever that you like for all your tab items and then set just the colour as I describe.

Or any number of combinations.