Question

I searched the internet for this but i couldn’t find how to do it with C#

What i am trying to do is make it so that when i click on my NewTab button, a new tab appears with the same controls that were on the first tab. I saw some information on how to add a UserControl to your form, but C# doesn’t have anything like that.

And for everyone who would say “Post your code”, i don’t have any, so don’t bother saying that, the only code i have is the code for the program and that wouldn’t help anyone.

Answer 1

EDIT

I have rewritten my solution to use reflection.

using System.Reflection;

// your TabControl will be defined in your designer
TabControl tc;
// as will your original TabPage
TabPage tpOld = tc.SelectedTab;

TabPage tpNew = new TabPage();
foreach(Control c in tpOld.Controls)
{
    Control cNew = (Control) Activator.CreateInstance(c.GetType());

    PropertyDescriptorCollection pdc = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(c);

    foreach (PropertyDescriptor entry in pdc)
    {
        object val = entry.GetValue(c);
        entry.SetValue(cNew, val);
    }

    // add control to new TabPage
    tpNew.Controls.Add(cNew);
}

tc.TabPages.Add(tpNew);

Some information can be found here.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/12976/How-to-Clone-Serialize-Copy-Paste-a-Windows-Forms