Question

I’m creating a notepad type of application which has the tab functionality.

I have a MenuStrip at the top and I’m creating the TabControl, its TabPages and the RichTextBoxes at run-time and I have set the DockStyle of the TabControl as Fill. My problem is when I run the program the TabContol appears under the MenuStrip. It looks like this,

when it should look like this, below the MenuStrip. (for this screenshot only I added the TabControl at design time)

I think the reason is the TabControl gets created on the form before the MenuStrip does. How can I overcome this issue?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Use SetChildIndex.

form1.Controls.SetChildIndex(tabControl1, 0);