WPF TabControl with Overflow Icons - wpf

I have 7 tabitems in my tabcontrol and the width of the tabcontrol is only 500. Therefore the tabitems are displayed in 3 rows. I want it to be shown in a dropdown at the end of the tabcontrol just like an overflow tabcontrol. How can I create it?

take a look here on CodeProject. I am thinking this will do what you want. Basically all you have to do is make a control template for your tab control.

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I've been making a custom style for TabControls and TabItems for a program I'm designing, and would like to know if it's possible to have it so that if all TabItems in a TabControl have the property Visibility="Collapsed", the TabControl's TabPanel (where the tabs are displayed) can be collapsed or otherwise completely hidden. This is of course a default behaviour in TabControls, but since they're using a custom style (so they are no longer fugly, and are consistent with the theme of the application) this behaviour seems to have disappeared (likely because as of now I have the Height property set to a hardcoded value)... which brings me to my next point, the height of the TabPanel - when tabs are visible - should be several pixels more than the height of the tabs. Of course this makes using margins difficult, because that extra height should be removed if all TabItems are collapsed.
So to summarize, what I'm looking to do:
TabControl when any tabs are not collapsed:
TabPanel has a height of 26px (taller than the TabItems, which are 18px tall)
TabControl when all tabs are collapsed:
TabPanel is completely collpased/hidden, with zero height
Many thanks to any of you awesome people that can help me out. I've been working with WPF consecutively for long enough to fry my brain, and a simple solution to this problem escapes me (I need a break!)
Well nevermind!
This is what happens when you've spent too long working on stuff.
The solution was to give the TabItems a margin that gives the extra height above them, and then to set the TabPanel's Height property to Auto inside the TabControl's ControlTemplate. Duh!

Bootstrap css style of vertical tab control for WPF?

I'm looking for a bootstrap CSS style of a vertical tab control, like at this page:
https://dbtek.github.io/bootstrap-vertical-tabs/demo.html
If I'm going to do it myself, what WPF control should I begin with as the base class? (I don't think the WPF tabcontrol should be a starting point because the styles are so different)
Thanks
You can re-style the TabControl and the TabItems to look like you want. It may require some effort though.
You can right-click on a TabControl in design mode in Visual Studio or in Blend and choose Edit Template->Edit a Copy to copy the default style into your XAML markup and then edit it as per your requirements. Edit Additional Templates->Edit Generated Item Container (ItemContainerStyle) will do the same thing for the TabItem container.
Also note that you can set the TabStripPlacement property of the TabControl to Left to change the position of the tabs.

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I have a WPF TabControl who's TabItems are MEF'd in at run time. However, they are MEF'd in only when a certain item in a left-hand treeview is selected. What I'd like to do is display a centered message inside the TabControl indicating "No Active Scenario Selected". I tried adding a TextBlock inside the TabControl but what I got was a TabItem instead. Any ideas?
One way to do this is simply by putting a TextBlock on top of the TabControl and show it when the TabControl doesn't have any Tabs added.
You can bind the Visibility of the TextBlock to the HasItems property of the TabControl and use a value converter (BooleanToVisibilityConverter or your own implementation) to show and hide the TextBlock.

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Edit
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I find it. By mistake there was
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How to implement textbox similar to facebook textbox in privacy settings where you can add to textbox custom controls:
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Are there any other ways?
Thanks.
that's the only thing that comes to my mind... just have a stackpanel (wrappanel) and add items from left to right where the last one is the actual textbox...place everything in a nice canvas add some border and set the margins of the textbox to 0 so that it will fill up all the space if there is no other control in it...
it looks like it's not that big of a problem:)

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