如何将上面带有tab控件的MDI子窗体加载到您从MDI父菜单栏中选择的特定选项卡上

Question

I have two forms. My MDI Parent and MDI child. on the child form there is a tab control with 4 tabs that each serve their own purpose. on the MDI parent form I have a menustrip that lets you click "Customers". from there a dropdown list comes up and you can select like "add new" or "manage customers" and so on. Each menu item ties to a tab on the tabcontrol. Because the tabcontrol only exists on the MDI child form, how do I tell it to load into the child form and pick a tab on the tabcontrol based on which option the user picked in the menustrip?

Edit: It loads into the child form just fine, I just want it to be able to open to specific tabs

Answer 1

I figured it out. Just in case anyone is wondering, the tabcontrol on the child form has to be public in the designer and then the line of code is

This would be from Form1 which is the MDI parent form and form2 is the child

private void YourCommandName_Click (object sender, EventsArgs e)   

    {          
    form2 child = new form2      
    child.MdiParent = this;      
    child.show();     
    child.tabcontrol1.SelectedTab = child.tabpage1;   
    }  

There might be a better way to do it, but that worked for me.