Visual Studio TabStrip

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Introduction

I have replicated Visual Studio's vertical TabStrip control from the ground up. This lightweight control doesn't have containers which you can dump controls onto, as I have created the control to be used with forms instead of containers. Enjoy this 173 code liner.

Background

I was looking at creating something similar to the VS2008 Property Pages. I started off by mimicking the exact look and feel.

Using the Code

There are four custom properties..

• Tabs()
• TabHeight
• Hover
• Selected

There are two custom events..

• ItemHover
• SelectedIndexChanged

Simply set the Tabs() property in the IDE, and adjust TabHeight, if desired. From there, you can catch the _SelectedIndexChanged event at runtime.

Private Sub XSlider1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal eIndex As Integer) _
            Handles XSlider1.SelectedIndexChanged
  Trace.WriteLine(eIndex.ToString + " - " + Me.XSlider1.Tabs(eIndex).ToString)

End Sub

Points of Interest

The user has the option of docking the control to the left or right side of the form. Where Vista is installed, the font will snap to "Segoe UI".

History

• 19-Jan-08 - Version 1 - submission.
• 20-Jan-08 - Version 2 - five fixes.