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Tab controls, MDI tabs and tab page containers

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Prof-UIS provides a rich set of classes for arranging your windows into tabbed interface. Tab-related classes can be divided into five groups:

Tab control (see Figure 1).
Tab page container (see Figure 2).
MDI tab window (see Figure 3).
Tabbed toolbar (see Tabbed toolbars).

The tab windows are available in different styles:

Whidbey
One Note
Flat
Button
Native XP
Office 2007
Visual Studio
Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio 2010

Each tab control features:

splitting tabs into different groups that have similar attributes
compact style for tabs
tab animation while scrolling
"<", ">", "?", and "X" control buttons
tab icons
tooltips over tabs and over control buttons

The tab control windows are also used in tabbed control bar containers.

Prof-UIS: Whidbey style

Figure 1. Tab control (One Note style)

Prof-UIS: One Note style

Figure 2. Tab page container (flat style)

Resizing the Visual Studio .NET tab control

Figure 3. MDI application with MDI tab window (One Note style)