Using Winform TabControl

Question

Is it good or bad practise to use tabs in winforms?

Do you need to preform anything specail to pass objects between them?

Answer 1

You can use Tab Control. Its totally safe.

You do not need anything special to pass value between tabs.

They are used when you want to open multiple forms in a single control that is your tabcontrol.

Those forms can be opened as Child/Content in Tab items. Each and every one of them will maintain its state and value even if you switch from one tab to another.

Answer 2

Tabs are a suitable tool for grouping and organizing controls on a form. They can help de-clutter a busy form.

You don't have to do anything special to pass data between controls on different tabs, as they're all on the same form.

Answer 3

It depends on the requirement, Tabs are good to group related controls, but sometimes it does not provide a very good user experience by hiding out some controls.

You don have to do any thing to pass information in between them and you can access any control with in a tab, and controls in any tab can access from variables in which they are hosted.

Answer 4

TabControl is a good control if you want to sort and avoid multiples new forms. If you want to pass data between tabs, there's no problem because it's one control for multiple tabs.