How to rearrange a WinForms TabControl TabPages during design time?

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Ivan picture Ivan · Jul 11, 2011 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

How to reorder TabPages during design?

In a project of mine I don't mean to implement runtime reordering, but I'd like to place the pages in a specific meaningful order after initially designing them in another order.

Answer

IAbstract picture IAbstract · Jul 11, 2011

In the Properties window for your Tab Control, select the button with the ellipses:

button to open TabPage Collection Editor

You can add, remove, edit and reorder your Tab Pages in this editor:

TabPage Collection Editor

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