FindName in TabControl

[Kelley Wong]

I create a tabcontrol which contains two tabitem
code as follows:

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
    <telerik:RadTabControl>
        <telerik:RadTabItem Header="Test1">
            <Button Content="Click"
                    Width="80"
                    Height="26"
                    x:Name="Tbtn"
                    Click="Tbtn_Click" />
        </telerik:RadTabItem>

        <telerik:RadTabItem Header="Test2">
            <Button Content="Click"
                    Width="80"
                    Height="26"
                    x:Name="btn"
                    Click="btn_Click" />
        </telerik:RadTabItem>
    </telerik:RadTabControl>
</Grid>

private void btn_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Object obj = LayoutRoot.FindName("Tbtn");
        }

        private void Tbtn_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Object obj = LayoutRoot.FindName("btn");
        }

first , the test1 tabitem is selected , i click the button to get another button in test2 tabitem,it returns well

then i selected the test2 tabitem , i click the button to get the button in test1 tabitem ,it returns null

and then i selected the test1 tabitem again , click the button ,it returns null 

what should i do if i selected the second tabitem, i want to get a control which in the first tabitem ,and suggestions?

thanks in advance

[Tina Stancheva]

Hi Kelley,

You can set the RadTabControl.IsContentPreserved property to True. You can find more info about that property here.

Kind regards,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team