WPF, need style for tab control to look like VS2008 tabs

[moondaddy]

I'm using c# 3.5 and wpf, and need to know how to create a style or control
template to make the tabs in the tab contorl look like the tabs in VS 2008.

Any code samples?

Thanks.

 

[Marco Zhou [MSFT]]

Hello George,

Welcome back!

I cannot find any sample on how to customize the TabControl to make it look
like the one in Visual Studio, so I spend several hours mocking up a sample:

You could download the sample at the following location:
http://cid-fd9a0f1f8dd06954.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Code Sample
s/WPF/TabControlStylingDemo.zip

This sample is a quick example, and use too much hardcoding, you need to
tweak the TabChrome code to make it more general-purpose.
If you have any question conerning the sample, feel free to post back here.

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[moondaddy]

Hey thanks for all the work you put into this as it's a real eye-opener! I
have a couple of questions:

1) what do you mean "to make it more general purpose". this look pretty
general purpose as it's automatically applied to the tab control.

2) How is this automatically applied to the tab control when it's not
referenced in the tab control as a control template or anything?

I'm going to have to spend some time studying the geometry to understand how
to tweak it. Thanks again this is really cool.

 

[Marco Zhou [MSFT]]

Hi George,

I've send your an email containg the final working example and some
explanation, please check it out.

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