Adding New Tab Button

This topic introduces the ability to allow users to add a new tab button at runtime on the WinTabStrip and WinTab controls.

This topic contains the following sections:

Similar to the tabs found on contemporary browsers, this feature allows the user to add new tabs while the application is up and running. To configure this feature both the WinTabStrip and WinTab controls exposes the NewTabButtonLocation property.

The NewTabButtonLocation property has three option settings:

The NewTabButtonLocation property can be set using either the Visual Studio designer or in code.

An example of configuring the new tab button location in code behind.

In C#:

In Visual Basic:

The following events have been added to the UltraTabControlBase class.

The new tab button supports AppStylist by adding a new role called, NewTabButton to enable the styling of the new tab button’s appearance.

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