I want to create a tabbed UI. The controls that will appear on each tab should all be on a User Control which can then be added to the page at runtime.

It's amazing that a "superior" tool like VS requires you to jump through hoops to do so many simple things.





>>You have to do it in code???? UGH!
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>Well, it depends on what you're sub-classing and what you want to do with it. If you have a UserControl class that you want to sub-class, you can do a lot of it visually if you need to. So, say you have this UserControl:
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>public class MyBaseControl : System.Windows.Forms.UserControl
>{
>   // code in here
>}
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>Now, to sub-class it, you start out by doing it in code: Add a new class to your project, make it of type UserControl, then go into the code and change it from this:
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>public class MySubControl : System.Windows.Forms.UserControl
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>to this:
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>public class MySubControl : MyBaseControl
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>At this point you can open your new sub-class up in the designer.
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>~~Bonnie