Embed a form onto a tabcontrol in windows forms

Question

I have a tab control in a windows form and I want to be able to click on a tab and in the body area of the tab I want it to display another form as an embedded component. Is this possible? If so, can someone please provide an example or a link to an example of how to accomplish this?

Answer 1

Set your MainForm (Parent) as IsMDIContainer = true;

Create an instance of the ChildForm and call this function:

FormChild frmChild = new FormChild();
AddNewTab(frmChild);

Copy this Function to your code:

private void AddNewTab(Form frm)
{

    TabPage tab = new TabPage(frm.Text);

    frm.TopLevel = false;

    frm.Parent = tab;

    frm.Visible = true;

    tabControl.TabPages.Add(tab);

    frm.Location = new Point((tab.Width - frm.Width) / 2, (tab.Height - frm.Height) / 2);

    tabControl.SelectedTab = tab;

}