Question

Does anyone know a way to open a 2nd form in a .NET application with a certain tab selected in a tab control on that form?

This is what my current code looks like which just opens the form:

SettingsForm TheSettingsForm = new SettingsForm(this); TheSettingsForm.Show(); 

SettingsForm.cs is the name of the 2nd form to be opened.

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

You just need to expose a property on your form that allows the calling code to set the desired tab. You might do it just by index like this:

var form = new SettingsForm(this); form.SelectedTab = 2; form.Show(); 

The property on the form would just set the appropriate property on the tab control:

public int SelectedTab {     get { return _tabControl.SelectedIndex; }     set { _tabControl.SelectedIndex = value; } }