By default, the TabControl shares a panel to render it’s content. To do what you want (and many other WPF developers), you need to extend TabControl like so: TabControlEx.cs [TemplatePart(Name = “PART_ItemsHolder”, Type = typeof(Panel))] public class TabControlEx : TabControl { private Panel ItemsHolderPanel = null; public TabControlEx() : base() { // This is necessary … Read more
You need a wee bit of Win32 API magic. The tab control sends the TCM_ADJUSTRECT message to allow the app to adjust the tab size. Add a new class to your project and paste the code shown below. Compile. Drop the new control from the top of the toolbox onto your form. You’ll get the … Read more
This isn’t MVVM. You should not be creating UI elements in your view model. You should be binding the ItemsSource of the Tab to your ObservableCollection, and that should hold models with information about the tabs that should be created. Here are the VM and the model which represents a tab page: public sealed class … Read more