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C# How to disable Tab Page in Tab Control

Hello,

I've been unsuccessful disabling tab pages in my app.

Prior to the user selecting 'Run' I require the result tabs to be disabled (preferrably invisible, greyed out ok).

I've tried:
this.ExampleTabPage.Enabled = false;

athough it makes no difference.

The only way I see it working is to add ExampleTabPage to the TabControl when the Run() has been completed.

Any suggestions?

MyPages.designer.cs configures the tabs, including the RunTab. The RunTab contains the RunControl.

I'm having difficulty working out how to update the tabs in the RunControl. I haven't updated designer variables before.

Thanks

Cong Minh Vo

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/252t3cec.aspx

Easwaran Paramasivam

TabPage also inherit the control properties.

Control tab = new Control;

tab = TabPage1; //your tabpage name

tab.Enable = False;

Éric Moreau

also check http://emoreau.com/Entries/Articles/2004/05/The-incomplete-TabControl.aspx

dimaj

another way is to encapsulate everything on your tab page in a group box and disable the group box. When disabled, all child controls within the group box will be inaccessible.

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BlnGuy

If you want to disable all controls on a single tab page but still leave the page accessible, maybe on a configuration dialog, you may only want to disable all child controls of this page.

You can achieve this with the following code:

foreach (Control c in tabPage2.Controls)
{
    c.Enabled = false;
}

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In my example I just wanted to disable all controls, that reside on tabPage2. Instead of "tabPage2" use your control's name in the foreach loop.