TabControl - Disable/Enable tab page

You can't disable a tab as such, but you could mimic it.

You could do something like the following:

1. Add a TabControl with 2 pages
2. Set DrawMode to OwnerDrawFixed
3. Attach the TabControl.Selecting event to tabControl1_Selecting
4. Attach the TabControl.DrawItem event to tabControl1_DrawItem
5. Then copy the following code into your form (you will have to change it a little)

public Form1()   {    InitializeComponent();    tabPage2.Enabled = false;   }   private void tabControl1_Selecting(object sender, TabControlCancelEventArgs e)   {    if (!e.TabPage.Enabled)    {     e.Cancel = true;    }   }   private void tabControl1_DrawItem(object sender, DrawItemEventArgs e)   {    TabPage page = tabControl1.TabPages[e.Index];    if (!page.Enabled)    {     using (SolidBrush brush = new SolidBrush(SystemColors.GrayText))     {      e.Graphics.DrawString(page.Text, page.Font, brush, e.Bounds);     }    }    else    {     using (SolidBrush brush = new SolidBrush(page.ForeColor))     {      e.Graphics.DrawString(page.Text, page.Font, brush, e.Bounds);     }    }   }

Basically what you are doing is drawing your own tabs. You are disabling the TabPage in your constructor - be aware that the TabPage.Enabled is not visible in the designer or intellisense - but it does exist.

Then in the selecting event you are stopping the focus from changing to a disabled page. In the DrawItem you are drawing the tabs yourself, so that you can mimic the disabled tab.

This is not a complete solution, but it will get you started.

HTH

David