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Retrieve Tab Header content

Can anyone help me figure out a way to retreive the content of a tab header in WPF?

All I want is the text in the header so I can assign it to some other variable, but there doesn't seem to be any way of getting at it.

I am very new to WPF.. but the last hour or so googling this problem has not returned anything helpful.

Thanks

Solution

  • You know how casting and such works, right?

    <TabControl>
    <TabItem Name="_tabItem1" Header="MyHeader"/>
</TabControl>

    //Header is an object and hence needs to be casted for retrieval as string
string headerText = (string)_tabItem1.Header;
MessageBox.Show(headerText);

    TabItem.Header can be anything, even complex controls so if you did not set this to a string yourself you cannot retrieve it as string like this either.