Embed a form onto a tabcontrol in windows forms

Question

I have a tab control in a windows form and I want to be able to click on a tab and in the body area of the tab I want it to display another form as an embedded component. I

Answer 1

I think the other answer has the right idea; Tabbed MDI is probably what you want.

There is an approach where you create a UserControl that has the same content as the form and use that on the TabPage.

TabPage myTabPage = new TabPage(sometext);
myUserControl = new myUserControlType();
myUserControl.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
myTabPage.Controls.Add(myUserControl);
myTabControl.Add(myTabPage);

http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/270457-can-i-add-form-tabpage goes into more detail; but I'd look at the MDI stuff first.