TabPageCollection in UserControl

[hamidmahmood]

I have a custom user control which contains a tab control and some other controls. I want to expose the tab control's TabPages property via the user control. For that I have created a property

[ DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden), MergableProperty(false), Editor("System.Windows.Forms.Design.TabPageCollectionEditor, System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a", typeof(UITypeEditor))]
 
public TabPageCollection TabPages
        {
            get
            {
                return tabControl1.TabPages;
            }
        }

At design time I can add a tab using the property grid but upon compiling/running they are lost..

Upon inspection I have found that the InitializeComponent() method doesn't contain any lines which should actually be adding the tab i.e

this.customControl1.TabPages.Add(tabPage1);

Is there any work around for this?

[Plater]

I am unsure how if you can add tabpages to your control within the dev-gui that they don't get created in code, but I would suggest just manually adding them into the init function? Or maybe just write your own function that populates the tabpages and have that function run?

[hamidmahmood]

I am unsure how if you can add tabpages to your control within the dev-gui that they don't get created in code, but I would suggest just manually adding them into the init function? Or maybe just write your own function that populates the tabpages and have that function run?

Actually I want design time support as well. Doing a TabPages.Add works fine but doing the same through designer doesn't work. If you like I can send you the sample code for the project..

Thanks,