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Work-a-round for shifting TabPages on Windows form Tab control

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Work-a-round for shifting TabPages on Windows form Tab control

by  SBendBuckeye  Posted    (Edited  )
When you use a Tab control in a .Net Windows form and then change the TabPage order using the items property, it does not always display properly. This is a known and documented bug which has not been fixed.

I ran into it recently and found a handful of solutions, the best of which seemed to be adding the TabPages into the Tab's controls array manually when the form loaded:
Code: 
'Assumes a tab control named tc and 4 TabPages
tc.Controls(0) = tabPage0
tc.Controls(1) = tabPage1
tc.Controls(2) = tabPage2
tc.Controls(3) = tabPage3
I set the index value in the Tag property and then ensured the correct order by doing something like this:
Code: 
Dim index As Integer
For Each tp As TabPage In Me.tc.TabPages
    index = CInt(tp.Tag)
    Me.tc.TabPages(index) = tp
Next
Enjoy!
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