close button on tab

[matias]

hi, i am new on telerik wpf
i am using tab control to show different usercontrols inside (as different views)

i would like to have a close button on the tab like ie or firefox has
is this possible?

THANKS!

[Miroslav]

Hi matias,

There is no such built-in functionality, but it is quite easy to create.

There is a similar thread here for the Silverlight TabControl, the suggestions there are valid for wpf as well:

http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/silverlight/tabcontrol/how-to-close-the-tab.aspx

Another thing you can do in WPF is use commands. Commands are attached to buttons and when the button is clicked, a routed event is raised on the button. You can handle the event anywhere on its route down to the application.  

Commands are a very powerful concept, this MSDN article gives more details abou them:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc785480.aspx

To summarize: You need to handle the Click event of a button placed in the Header of a TabItem. Quite possibly the TabItems will be created dynamically and hence you will not have a direct access to the button, because it will be a part of a DataTemplate. Then you need use either a custom header (UserControl), routed events or routed commands to act on the button click.

All the best,

Miroslav
the Telerik team

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[Jonathan]

Is there any chance you could put a demo project together for this in WPF? dnamically created tabs with a close button along with some regular staic tabs on the same radtabcontrol...

[Petar Mladenov]

Hello Jonathan,

I prepared a sample for you that uses Style for the "Closeable" tabs and ViewModels. Unfortunately, there is no way to have both static RadTabItems and other that are bound to ViewModels. Instead you can have StyleSelector to select different Styles for the different TabItems.

Greetings,
Petar Mladenov
the Telerik team

[Jonathan]

Thanks!