Design-time support
TabStrip control has powerful VS.NET design-time support - the design-time functionality of TabStrip has been enhanced to support the new version of Visual Studio .NET 2005, along with its new productivity features like Smart Tags, click handling and direct control acessing.
After user adds TabStrip control to the page he will be able to edit tab page's content directly in tab area - without using any templates or dialogs.
To switch to the other tab user may click on the tab header.
Clicked tab content appears in the editing area.
To call most used command user may call this commands from context menu in designer
There are next commands is available:
- Auto format
- Page properties editing dialog
- Client-side events editing dialog
- About dialog
Also smart tag panel for control is available.
Smart Tags
TabStrip takes full advantage of the Smart Tags introduced in Visual Studio 2005.
Using the Smart Tag Panel
When an instance of r.a.d.tabstrip is selected on the Web Form's design surface, a Smart Tag anchor is displayed in its top-right corner.
The screenshot below shows the Smart Tag panel for an instance of a TabStrip control.
With Smart Tags, you can:
- customize the visual appearance of the control (Auto Format);
- select an active tab;
- build visually the structure of the control (Edit pages);
- enable or disable AJAX functionality;
- show or hide loading panel during AJAX callback;
- edit client-side event handlers.