如何在WPF的TabItem中包含一组默认控件

Question

I am learning WPF , its very confusing with all the DataTemplate stuff. I have a TabControl and inside it I will create many TabItems . There are two kinds of TabItems , ones that contain 1 textbox , and others that contain a textbox and a listbox .

Like so :

I make a dozen of these tabs, in different combinations, how can I make a template/pre-made control that I can say, I want to TabControl.AddTab(style1) and another time .Add(Style2) ...

Is this possible? How should I go about doing it?

And secondary question, if this was accomplished, how would I reference say the listbox inside any one of the tabs if the name was auto generated?

Here are the two different types in XAML :

<TabItem Header="Style2">
    <TextBox IsReadOnly="True" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
</TabItem>

<TabItem Header="Style1">
    <DockPanel>
        <ListBox DockPanel.Dock="Right">
            <ListBoxItem>User1</ListBoxItem>
            <ListBoxItem>User2</ListBoxItem>
        </ListBox>
        <TextBox IsReadOnly="True" />
    </DockPanel>
</TabItem>

Answer 1

In WPF, you can take advantage of the control's ItemTemplate (for header) and ContentTemplate (for content inside the tab) to control the content.

Define the dedired controls in a DataTemplate inside ContentTemplate.

Here is an untested example:

<TabControl ItemsSource="{Binding Path=AllTabs, Mode=OneWay}">
  <TabControl.ItemTemplate>
    <DataTemplate>
      <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=HEADERPROPERTY}" Margin="4,2,2,2" />
    </DataTemplate>
  </TabControl.ItemTemplate>
  <TabControl.ContentTemplate>
    <DataTemplate>
      <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=SOMEPROPERTY}" />
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=SOMEOTHERPROPERTY}" />
        <TextBox Text="{Binding Path=SOMETEXTPROPERTY}" />
      </Grid>
    </DataTemplate>
  </TabControl.ContentTemplate>
</TabControl>

It is provided that the "AllTabs" property in the binding is an ObservableCollection containing a class which holds different properties for what you want to show. Like a String property (or more) where the Header is. And whatever you need to show in the content.