Creating a tab control with a dynamic number of tabs in Visual Studio C#

Question

How to create a tab control with a dynamic number of tabs in Visual Studio C#?

I\'ve got a database with a table customers. I need to create a form that

Answer 1

You would add the code to generate the tabs where you determine what letters are required to be shown, probably when you either retrieve the data or in the form's OnLoad() method. You should be able to dynamically add/remove tabs from the built-in tab control. You can check the designer code for some idea how to do it, or the docs.

Note that it isn't necessarily a good idea to add a separate tab for each character. 26 tabs (which will happen when your database gets reasonably large) is a pretty awful number of tabs for someone to look through-- it won't necessarily make things faster at all.

Instead, consider providing a dynamic filtering mechanism, similar to the search box on Vista's start menu. Your user can type a single character (assuming you aren't writing some sort of kiosk or touch-screen-only software) and zoom immediately to the relevant names. This would work ideally with a ListView in List or Details mode.