XP visual style compatible Tab Control

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XP visual style compatible Tab Control

I've seen a dozen, often complicated, solutions to this problem, but I really hope the Tab Control will be able to display using XP Visual Styles in the next VS.NET release
It's pretty annoying to have a great-looking interface everywhere but in the Preferences dialog.. :-)

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XP visual style compatible Tab Control

  • Remus Radu

    The TabControl shipped in v1 of the .NET Framework supports visual styles.  Simply add a manifest to your application.  The following article will help you with this, <a href="http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/windowsforms/Themes.aspx">http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/windowsforms/Themes.aspx</a>

    The TabPages on this controls though, do not support the visual style's gradient background fill.  This will be addressed in a future version.

     - mike

  • vtortola

    Please look this link http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Pankaj_Patel.asp

    May be it's helpful,But i need to work more in this control. once i have finished some work then i'v uploaded latest ver. on this site......

    Enjoyeeeeeeeeeeee............................

  • Ryan Lowdermilk

    Have you ever tried enabling the XP Visual Style suport in your app That should render the Tab Control in XP style.

  • Rajendran

    This has been fixed for .NET 2.0; the TabControl now has full support for Visual Styles.

  • Mikener

    Just curious.. do you know if "a future version" means "in Visual Studio .NET 2003", or "in some distant future"

    /A

  • Qa Dept

    This bug is not addressed in the .NET Framework 1.1, which corresponds to Visual Studio .NET 2003.  So I guess you will have to wait for the "distant future", but its not really that distant.  :)

     - mike

  • Li Wang

    i would type "i agree" a thousand times, but my hands are too tired from writing tab control functionality ;)
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