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TabPane Properties

The page container with built-in flat tabs (unlike the NavigationFrame), displaying one page at a time. Supports animation effects when navigating through pages. See Navigation Frame and Tab Pane.

Name Description
AccessibilityObject Gets the AccessibleObject assigned to the control. Inherited from Control.
AccessibleDefaultActionDescription Gets or sets the default action description of the control for use by accessibility client applications. Inherited from Control.
AccessibleDescription Gets or sets the description of the control used by accessibility client applications. Inherited from Control.
AccessibleName Gets or sets the name of the control used by accessibility client applications. Inherited from Control.
AccessibleRole Gets or sets the accessible role of the control. Inherited from Control.
AllowCollapse Gets or sets whether the collapse button is visible, allowing users to collapse the control.
AllowDrop Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control can accept data that the user drags onto it. Inherited from Control.
AllowGlyphSkinning Gets or sets whether or not page icons should be colorized with these pages’ fore colors. Inherited from NavigationPane.
AllowHtmlDraw Gets or sets whether or not page tab header captions recognize HTML tags. Inherited from NavigationPane.
AllowOverlayResize Gets or sets whether or not all clicks made close to the page border should be handled by the NavigationPane instead of controls lying on top of this page. Inherited from NavigationPane.
AllowResize Gets or sets whether end-users are allowed to resize the NavigationPane‘s content area by dragging its border. Inherited from NavigationPane.
AllowTransitionAnimation Gets or sets whether or not changing the frame’s selected page is followed by animation effects. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
Anchor Gets or sets the edges of the container to which a control is bound and determines how a control is resized with its parent. Inherited from Control.
Appearance Provides access to appearance settings for this NavigationFrame. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
AppearanceButton Provides access to appearance settings applied to tab headers of NavigationPages that belong to this NavigationPane. Inherited from NavigationPane.
AutoScrollOffset Gets or sets where this control is scrolled to in ScrollControlIntoView(Control). Inherited from Control.
AutoSize This property is not relevant for this class. Inherited from Control.
BackColor Gets or sets the back color for this NavigationFrame. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
BackgroundImage Gets or sets the background image displayed in the control. Inherited from Control.
BackgroundImageLayout Gets or sets the background image layout as defined in the ImageLayout enumeration. Inherited from Control.
BindingContext Gets or sets the BindingContext for the control. Inherited from Control.
Bottom Gets the distance, in pixels, between the bottom edge of the control and the top edge of its container’s client area. Inherited from Control.
Bounds Gets or sets the size and location of the control including its nonclient elements, in pixels, relative to the parent control. Inherited from Control.
ButtonsPanel This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from NavigationPane.
CanEnableIme protected Gets a value indicating whether the ImeMode property can be set to an active value, to enable IME support. Inherited from Control.
CanFocus Gets a value indicating whether the control can receive focus. Inherited from Control.
CanRaiseEvents protected Determines if events can be raised on the control. Inherited from Control.
CanSelect Gets a value indicating whether the control can be selected. Inherited from Control.
Capture Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control has captured the mouse. Inherited from Control.
CausesValidation Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control causes validation to be performed on any controls that require validation when it receives focus. Inherited from Control.
CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls static Gets or sets a value indicating whether to catch calls on the wrong thread that access a control’s Handle property when an application is being debugged. Inherited from Control.
ClientRectangle Gets the rectangle that represents the client area of the control. Inherited from Control.
ClientSize Gets or sets the height and width of the client area of the control. Inherited from Control.
CompanyName Gets the name of the company or creator of the application containing the control. Inherited from Control.
Container Gets the IContainer that contains the Component. Inherited from Component.
ContainsFocus Gets a value indicating whether the control, or one of its child controls, currently has the input focus. Inherited from Control.
ContextMenu Gets or sets the shortcut menu associated with the control. Inherited from Control.
ContextMenuStrip Gets or sets the ContextMenuStrip associated with this control. Inherited from Control.
Controls Gets the collection of controls contained within the control. Inherited from Control.
Created Gets a value indicating whether the control has been created. Inherited from Control.
Cursor Gets or sets the cursor that is displayed when the mouse pointer is over the ControlBase control. Inherited from ControlBase.
DataBindings Gets the data bindings for the control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultBackColor static Gets the default background color of the control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultCursor protected Gets or sets the default cursor for the control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultFont static Gets the default font of the control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultForeColor static Gets the default foreground color of the control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultImeMode protected Gets the default Input Method Editor (IME) mode supported by the control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultMargin protected Gets the space, in pixels, that is specified by default between controls. Inherited from Control.
DefaultMaximumSize protected Gets the length and height, in pixels, that is specified as the default maximum size of a control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultMinimumSize protected Gets the length and height, in pixels, that is specified as the default minimum size of a control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultPadding protected Gets the internal spacing, in pixels, of the contents of a control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultSize protected Gets the default size of the control. Inherited from Control.
DesignMode protected Gets a value that indicates whether the Component is currently in design mode. Inherited from Component.
DisableLiveResize Gets or sets whether or not this NavigationPane should disable its live preview upon resizing at runtime. Inherited from NavigationPane.
DisplayRectangle Gets the rectangle that represents the display area of the control. Inherited from Control.
Disposing Gets a value indicating whether the base Control class is in the process of disposing. Inherited from Control.
Dock Gets or sets the dock style for this NavigationPane. Inherited from NavigationPane.
DoubleBuffered protected Gets or sets a value indicating whether this control should redraw its surface using a secondary buffer to reduce or prevent flicker. Inherited from Control.
Enabled Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control can respond to user interaction. Inherited from Control.
Events protected Gets the list of event handlers that are attached to this Component. Inherited from Component.
Focused Gets a value indicating whether the control has input focus. Inherited from Control.
Font Gets or sets the control font. Inherited from ControlBase.
FontHeight protected Gets or sets the height of the font of the control. Inherited from Control.
ForeColor Gets or sets the fore color for this NavigationFrame. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
Handle Gets the window handle that the control is bound to. Inherited from Control.
HasChildren Gets a value indicating whether the control contains one or more child controls. Inherited from Control.
Height Gets or sets the height of the control. Inherited from Control.
HtmlImages Gets or sets a collection of images that you can embed into captions/messages/tooltips in the control using the image HTML-inspired tag. Inherited from NavigationPane.
Images Gets or sets the image storage whose images can be used as icons for pages owned by this NavigationPane. Inherited from NavigationPane.
ImeMode Gets or sets the Input Method Editor (IME) mode of the control. Inherited from Control.
ImeModeBase protected Gets or sets the IME mode of a control. Inherited from Control.
InvokeRequired Gets a value indicating whether the caller must call an invoke method when making method calls to the control because the caller is on a different thread than the one the control was created on. Inherited from Control.
IsAccessible Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control is visible to accessibility applications. Inherited from Control.
IsDisposed Gets a value indicating whether the control has been disposed of. Inherited from Control.
IsHandleCreated Gets a value indicating whether the control has a handle associated with it. Inherited from Control.
IsInitialized Gets whether or not this NavigationFrame is initialized. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
IsInitializing Gets whether or not this NavigationFrame is being initialized. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
IsMirrored Gets a value indicating whether the control is mirrored. Inherited from Control.
IsRightToLeft Gets whether the ControlBase‘s visual elements are actually aligned to support locales using right-to-left fonts. Inherited from ControlBase.
IsSelected This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from NavigationPane.
ItemOrientation Gets or sets page header orientation for all NavigationPages that belong to this NavigationPane. Inherited from NavigationPane.
LayoutEngine Gets a cached instance of the control’s layout engine. Inherited from Control.
Left Gets or sets the distance, in pixels, between the left edge of the control and the left edge of its container’s client area. Inherited from Control.
Location Gets or sets the coordinates of the upper-left corner of the control relative to the upper-left corner of its container. Inherited from Control.
LookAndFeel Provides access to look and feel properties for this NavigationFrame. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
Margin Gets or sets the space between controls. Inherited from Control.
MaximumSize Gets or sets the size that is the upper limit that GetPreferredSize(Size) can specify. Inherited from Control.
MinimumSize Gets or sets the size that is the lower limit that GetPreferredSize(Size) can specify. Inherited from Control.
ModifierKeys static Gets a value indicating which of the modifier keys (SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT) is in a pressed state. Inherited from Control.
MouseButtons static Gets a value indicating which of the mouse buttons is in a pressed state. Inherited from Control.
MousePosition static Gets the position of the mouse cursor in screen coordinates. Inherited from Control.
Name Gets or sets the name of the control. Inherited from Control.
OverlayResizeZoneThickness Gets or sets the width of the overlay resize zone. Inherited from NavigationPane.
Padding Gets or sets padding within the control. Inherited from Control.
PageProperties Provides access to properties that manage settings shared among all navigation pages owned by this TabPane control.
Pages Provides indexed zero-based access to all pages owned by this NavigationFrame. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
Parent Gets or sets the parent container of the control. Inherited from Control.
PreferredSize Gets the size of a rectangular area into which the control can fit. Inherited from Control.
ProductName Gets the product name of the assembly containing the control. Inherited from Control.
ProductVersion Gets the version of the assembly containing the control. Inherited from Control.
PropagatingImeMode protected static Gets an object that represents a propagating IME mode. Inherited from Control.
RecreatingHandle Gets a value indicating whether the control is currently re-creating its handle. Inherited from Control.
Region Gets or sets the window region associated with the control. Inherited from Control.
RegularSize Gets or sets the size of this NavigationPane‘s content area when the pane is in its regular state. Inherited from NavigationPane.
RenderRightToLeft protected This property is now obsolete. Inherited from Control.
ResizeRedraw protected Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control redraws itself when resized. Inherited from Control.
RibbonAndBarsMergeStyle Gets or sets whether or not Bar Managers and Ribbon Controls from this NavigationFrame‘s child pages should be automatically merged to Bars and Ribbons in the main application form. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
Right Gets the distance, in pixels, between the right edge of the control and the left edge of its container’s client area. Inherited from Control.
RightToLeft Gets or sets a value indicating whether control’s elements are aligned to support locales using right-to-left fonts. Inherited from Control.
ScaleChildren protected Gets a value that determines the scaling of child controls. Inherited from Control.
SelectedPage Gets or sets the page currently selected within this TabPane control.
SelectedPageIndex Gets or sets which NavigationPage from the NavigationFrame.Pages collection should be selected. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
ShowFocusCues protected Gets a value indicating whether the control should display focus rectangles. Inherited from Control.
ShowKeyboardCues protected Gets a value indicating whether the user interface is in the appropriate state to show or hide keyboard accelerators. Inherited from Control.
ShowToolTips Gets or sets whether or not hovering over tab headers displays hints and super tips associated with these tabs. Inherited from NavigationPane.
Site Gets or sets the site of the control. Inherited from Control.
Size Gets or sets the height and width of the control. Inherited from Control.
State This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. The TabPane control does not support control states.
TabAlignment Gets or sets whether tabs are aligned at the near or far side of the pane, or in center. By default, the alignment depends on the pane’s dock style, and RTL setting.
TabIndex Gets or sets the tab order of the control within its container. Inherited from Control.
TabStop Gets or sets a value indicating whether the user can give the focus to this control using the TAB key. Inherited from Control.
Tag Gets or sets the object that contains data about the control. Inherited from Control.
Text Gets or sets the text associated with this control. Inherited from Control.
ToolTipController Gets or sets the tooltip controller associated with this NavigationPane. Inherited from NavigationPane.
Top Gets or sets the distance, in pixels, between the top edge of the control and the top edge of its container’s client area. Inherited from Control.
TopLevelControl Gets the parent control that is not parented by another Windows Forms control. Typically, this is the outermost Form that the control is contained in. Inherited from Control.
TransitionAnimationProperties Provides access to settings that affect the quality and performance of animation effects, played when this NavigationFrame navigates through its pages. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
TransitionManager Gets a NavigationFrame‘s TransitionManager object that controls the frame’s animation. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
TransitionType Gets or sets the type of transition animation that follows navigation from one NavigationPage within this frame to another. Inherited from NavigationFrame.
UseWaitCursor Gets or sets a value indicating whether to use the wait cursor for the current control and all child controls. Inherited from Control.
Visible Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control and all its child controls are displayed. Inherited from Control.
Width Gets or sets the width of the control. Inherited from Control.
WindowTarget This property is not relevant for this class. Inherited from Control.
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