Hide Tab Item Header

[Brian Lampe]

We have a requirement to drive our tab control from elsewhere in the application, and so, the header tabs have become unnecessary. 

Is there a way we can hide the tabs in a RadTabControl?  Or, is there a better control for our needs? 

TIA

Brian 

[Miroslav]

Hello Brian Lampe,

To hide the headers you may need to modify the control's Template.

Generally if your content is available as a property and its loading will not be managed by the TabControl, you can use a ContentControl or ContentPresenter and bind its Content property to your the content supplier.

You can also use the TransitioningContentControl which will animate the content changes.

Indeed using the TabControl may be unnecessary just for content switching.

Kind regards,
Miroslav
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[Robert]

I don't see why the Telerik support analyst did not provide example code to accomplish this?  Just speaking in generalities is not particularly helpful.  I have a similar requirement, and it would have saved me time if I had found a concrete solution here.  Instead, I will have to ask the same question via support ticket.

[Kiril Stanoev]

Hi Robert,

Thank you for your feedback. We are constantly trying to improve our support process and your opinion is of high importance for you. I've posted an answer to your support thread. Have a look at it and let me know if it helps.

Greetings,
Kiril Stanoev
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[Adrian Pay]

again, didnt post the answer. instead, decided to forward PRIVATELY the answer to the previous poster.

now, i have to BEG for the answer to the same question. can u just post the attachment here so everyone else who stumbles upon the same question will not need to ask AGAIN?

hope your support improves.

[Hristo]

Hi Adrian Pay,

Basically there are two approaches you can take to achieve this functionality. First, you can go in Expression Blend, edit the ControlTemplate of RadTabControl and remove (or hide) the header strip. The other way is to collapse it using the VisualTreeHelper class like this:

public MainWindow()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new Action(() =>
    {
        var root = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(this.WizardTabs, 0) as FrameworkElement;
        var headerElement = root.FindName("HeaderDockedElement") as UIElement;
        headerElement.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed;
    }), System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority.ApplicationIdle);
}

I'm sorry for the inconvenience and hope the answer will be of help to you. Let us know if you have further questions.

Regards,
Hristo
the Telerik team

[ravenger]

This code working on WPF, but it doesn't on Silverlight. Because silverlight doesn't have "DispatcherPriority.ApplicationIdle" property. 
Without dispatcher this code didn't working when application starting, but working after application was started.
Can you help me adapt this code to Silverlight?

[Hristo]

Hello Ravenger,

You could remove the last parameter of the method and try with the Dispatcher class in SL. I tested this code and it works in my sample app:

Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new Action(() =>
            {
                LayoutTransformControl a = Telerik.Windows.Controls.ChildrenOfTypeExtensions.ChildrenOfType<LayoutTransformControl>(this.thetab).FirstOrDefault();
                if (a != null)
                {
                    a.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed;
                }
            }));

Hope this helps. Please, let us know if you need further assistance.Kind regards,
Hristo
the Telerik team

[ravenger]

Thank you

[Mohamed]

Hey this works , thank you very much . may allah bless U

[Gene]

Thanks, this worked like a charm and is easy to revert should the requirement change back to showing the tab headers.