Tabs in WPF

[amitairoa]

Hi!

I have a WPF application that I'm building in Expression Blend 2.

There's a main window (Window 1). On Window 1 there are a number of buttons. Those buttons each open Window 2 in a new window, but depending on each button, Window 2 gets different images/media.

Right now, The buttons open Window 2 in a new window.

I want to change that. I want the whole application to be built on tabs.

So that Window 1 will be in a tab, and the user can click a button and it will open a new tab that has Window 2's contents. And on a different button, it opens another instance Window 2 in a new tab, just with a few changes.

 

Is there a simple and easy way to do this?

Please help.

Thanks!

 

P.S. If I didn't explain this so well, just ask what I mean.

[PlausiblyDamp]

Could you not convert the second window to a user control and add a tab control to window 1 - then either instantiate different versions of the control in each tab or simple change the style associated with the control when the tab is changed.

[amitairoa]

Could you not convert the second window to a user control and add a tab control to window 1 - then either instantiate different versions of the control in each tab or simple change the style associated with the control when the tab is changed.

 

How do you convert a window to a user control?

I didn't really understand what you meant after that.

Thanks.

[PlausiblyDamp]

In blend you can select the relevant controls and then right click on them and select 'Make Control', blend will then do all the hard work for you.