System.Windows.Forms.TabPage controls represent the tabbed pages in a System.Windows.Forms.TabControl control. The order of tab pages in the TabControl.TabPages collection reflects the order of tabs in the System.Windows.Forms.TabControl control. To change the order of tabs in the control, you must change their positions in the collection by removing them and inserting them at new indexes.

System.Windows.Forms.TabPage controls are constrained by their container, so some of the properties inherited from the System.Windows.Forms.Control base class will have no effect, including Control.Top, Control.Height, Control.Left, Control.Width, Control.Show, and Control.Hide.

The tabs in a System.Windows.Forms.TabControl are part of the System.Windows.Forms.TabControl but not parts of the individual System.Windows.Forms.TabPage controls. Members of the System.Windows.Forms.TabPage class, such as the Control.ForeColor property, affect only the client rectangle of the tab page, but not the tabs. Additionally, the Control.Hide method of the System.Windows.Forms.TabPage will not hide the tab. To hide the tab, you must remove the System.Windows.Forms.TabPage control from the TabControl.TabPages collection.

For more information about how this control responds to the Control.Focus and Control.Select methods, see the following System.Windows.Forms.Control members: Control.CanFocus, Control.CanSelect, Control.Focused, Control.ContainsFocus, Control.Focus, Control.Select.

In dnprdnext, the TabPage.UseVisualStyleBackColor property lets you indicate whether the background of the tab page should render using the current visual style. This occurs only when the TabPage.UseVisualStyleBackColor and Application.RenderWithVisualStyles property values are both true and the TabControl.Appearance property of the parent System.Windows.Forms.TabControl is TabAppearance.Normal. Otherwise, the background is painted normally.