WPF Tab Control with Touch Not Working

Question

I have a tab control that only responds to changing tabs with the mouse click.

Do I need to manually code in an event handler for tab control despite having the Surface SDK? Or is there a better control handler that I could use here?

I feel like this is entirely counter productive to the point of having the SDK. Especially because I plan on having a lot of different, unique tabs in my program and don't want to be handling each tab individually with nested ifs in a button_TouchDown function. I already have custom buttons that that have button_TouchDown setup and adding individual tab controls would be a headache and hell of a mess of code.

I tried searching but came up empty handed which makes me think that perhaps I am missing something and it should work. Is it because I have a predefined button_TouchDown function?

Answer 1

private void TabItem_TouchDown(object sender, TouchEventArgs e)
    {
        TabItem tab = sender as TabItem;
        TabControl control = tab.Parent as TabControl;
        control.SelectedItem = tab;
        e.Handled = true;
    }

XAML

 <TabItem x:Name="hccontactTab" Header="Phone" TouchDown="TabItem_TouchDown">