Hiding and Showing TabPages in tabControl

Question

I am trying to show or hide tabpages as per user choice. If user selects gender male then form for male in a tabpage "male" should be displayed and if user selects female then similar next form should be displayed in next tab "female"

I tried using

tabControl1.TabPages.Remove(...)

and

tabControl1.TabPages.Add(...)

It adds and removes the tabpages but doing so will loose my controls on tabpages too... i can't see them back. what's the problem here?

Answer 1

You could remove the tab page from the TabControl.TabPages collection and store it in a list. For example:

    private List<TabPage> hiddenPages = new List<TabPage>();

    private void EnablePage(TabPage page, bool enable) {
        if (enable) {
            tabControl1.TabPages.Add(page);
            hiddenPages.Remove(page);
        }
        else {
            tabControl1.TabPages.Remove(page);
            hiddenPages.Add(page);
        }
    }

    protected override void OnFormClosed(FormClosedEventArgs e) {
        foreach (var page in hiddenPages) page.Dispose();
        base.OnFormClosed(e);
    }