How do I get a TabControl to use the full width of its parent?

Question

The standard System.Windows.Forms.TabControl component draws a border around the TabPages it contains. If you set its Dock to Fill, these borders run up to the edge of the parent control, but they're still there, taking up screen space.

In Visual Studio, if you dock two windows in the same place, you get a TabControl-like set of tabs along the bottom, but no borders along the sides.

Is it possible to get a TabControl to display its TabPages in this manner, with no wasted screen space at the sides? If possible, I'd like to avoid solutions that involve painting the control myself.

Answer 1

1. Remove the height and width attributes from TabControl
2. Set horizontal and vertical alignment to stretch

e.g. won't stretch;

<TabControl Height="373" Width="609" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Name="tabControl1" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"  VerticalContentAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch">

e.g. will stretch;

<TabControl HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Name="tabControl1" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"  VerticalContentAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch">