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.. :-)

[281 byte] By [codefund.com] at [2007-12-16]

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# 1

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

codefund.com at 2007-9-8 >

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# 2

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

codefund.com at 2007-9-8 >

# 3

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

codefund.com at 2007-9-8 >

# 4

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

codefund.com at 2007-9-8 >

# 5

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............................

Pankaj.Patel at 2007-9-8 >

# 6

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

JRQ at 2007-9-8 >

# 7

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