Tab control + DataGridView in WinForms

Question

I have multiple results sets coming back from a server request against a datasource. I want to organise these with a WinForms tabPage for each result set, on a single tabControl. I am displaying the data in a DataGridView, but want to avoid having a DataGridView instance on each tabPage - I'd rather intercept the "switching to new tab page" message, and load up the appropriate results set from my local cache. Is there an easy/obvious way to do this?

Answer 1

Create a tab control as usual and then put a DataGridView on top of it (be sure not to put it inside a tab page).

Subscribe to the SelectedIndexChanged event and reload the data when the event fires.

Answer 2

Why would you want to do this? You'd lose the designability per result set (unless they're all the same structure) and have to manage all of this yourself.