How to Select Tab

Question

I have TabControl and 4 TabPages. I need to select the second Tab programmatically!

possible duplicate of [Activate tabpage of TabControl](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3921224/activate-tabpage-of-tabcontrol) — Trevor, Aug 13 '15 at 14:49
If you did some searching there are many answers here on SO that clearly show how this is done. Here is one for example: **http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3921224/activate-tabpage-of-tabcontrol** (look @Gimly) answer. Also a quick Google search yielded me about 630,000 hits, just a suggestion. This isn't a programming problem, this is lack of doing research before asking a good question. — Trevor, Aug 13 '15 at 14:50

score 28 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 13 '15 at 14:44

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You have two ways to do it

SelectedTab:

MyTabControl.SelectedTab = MyTabPage (The TabPage you want to select)
SelectedIndex:

MyTabControl.SelectedIndex = 1 (1 is the index of the second TabPage)

edited Aug 13 '15 at 14:44

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answered Aug 13 '15 at 14:42

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 03 '17 at 17:25

Here is my approach, I trust someone will find it helpful, using My.Settings:

Code for the exit button/routine:

    Private Sub PicClose_App_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles PicClose_App.Click

    ' Save the current active tab index, this will be used on next startup to determine on which TabPage to start
    My.Settings.Main_Form_Startup_TabPage = MyTabControl.SelectedTab.TabIndex

    Application.Exit()
End Sub

Code called from the Load event of the main form:

    Public Sub Form_Startup_TabPage()
    ' Get tab index from settings, 0 has been set as default
    Dim IntStartup_TabPage As Integer = My.Settings.Main_Form_Startup_TabPage

    ' Select the last tab used
    FrmMain.TabChar_Group_Selection.SelectedIndex = IntStartup_TabPage

End Sub

How to Select Tab

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