Programmatically close TabItem in WPF

Question

How the hell do you programmatically close a TabItem in a Windows 8 WPF Desktop TabControl?

There are no options in Intellisense, and the only things that appear in search results are custom implementations of either the TabControl or the TabItem.

Why can't we just do something like tabControl.SelectedItem.Close(); ?

Answer 1

I think that closing is the same as removing TabItem from TabControl

Edit: For Ex:

tabControl1.Items.RemoveAt(tabControl1.SelectedIndex);

Answer 2

You cannot close it. TabItem is not closeable. You can just hide it:

tabControl.SelectedItem.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed