Hello guys and thank you for checking out this very quick tutorial.
Here you can learn how to hide the Headers in a TabControl.
This is very useful if you create a Builder for a RAT for example, and you like to structure the Settings over multiple pages.
The user don't have to click the little TabControl-Header, you can switch the TabPages easiely by a way you like to (Buttons, ListBox etc).
Lets get started.

1) Create a new Windows Forms Application.

2) Drag a TabControl on you form and add as many pages as you like. In this tutorial I use 3.
When you are done it should look like this:



3) As you can see, the normal TabControl has those TabHeaders to switch between you pages.
Now give every TabPage a different color or add some controls so we can later see the TabSwitch
If you are done, it should look similar to this:



4)Now for the Coding Part. Doubleclick your form to get in the form load event.
There you paste this code:



This will hide the TabControlheaders at runtime, but still show them in the IDE for easy editing/designing.

5) Now we can think how we like to show every TabPage. You can use ListBox Items, TreeView nodes etc. But in this simple tutorial I am going to use Buttons.
So add 3 Buttons below our TabControl

6) In the buttons, just paste this code:



The TabIndex starts at 0, so the first TabPage has Index 0, The second TabPage has 1 and the Third TabPage has 2.

7) You are done. It should now look like this:



As you can see the TabHeaders are hidden.
I hope you liked this very small tutorial

(08-14-2013, 08:47 PM)ViolentReality Wrote: Nicely structured tutorial man, I've done something like this before.
However, I made a layout in photoshop and had buttons and panels posing as my TabControl. :>