How to rotate the text on the tabs of a TabControl 1

[DotNetter]

I have a TabControl and have set the Alignment property to "Left" so that the buttons go down the left side of the control. What I do not like though, is that the text now reads vertically on each tab. Is there a way to still have the text on the tab of the TabControl read horizontally?

Alternatively, I suppose I could create an image and display it in the tab of the TabControl, but how can I size the image to fill the entire tab of the TabControl?

Thanks!
Dot

 

[DotNetter]

Does anyone have any "idears" on this? I didn't think it would be such a hard question...

Thanks very much,
Dot

 

[ThatRickGuy]

Most posters are active during the work week, so friday night posts can often linger until monday with out a reply. I've never tries using a tab control sideways though, so I can't say.

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[bigtimmin]

1. Set the Tabcontrols SizeMode to Fixed.
2. Change the TabControls ItemSize property so that it gets serialized.
3. Change the TabControls DrawMode to OwnerDrawFixed
4. Then add the following code (assuming your tabcontrol is called TabControl1)

Private Sub TabControl1_DrawItem(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
            ByVal e As DrawItemEventArgs) Handles TabControl1.DrawItem

    e.Graphics.FillRectangle(SystemBrushes.Control, e.Bounds)
    Dim sf As New StringFormat
    sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center
    sf.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center
    e.Graphics.DrawString(TabControl1.TabPages(e.Index).Text, _
            TabControl1.Font, SystemBrushes.ControlText, _
            RectangleF.op_Implicit(e.Bounds), sf)
End Sub

I found this @

http://www.devnewsgroups.net/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms/topic10171.aspx

and got it to work. I don't understand step 2 of the process, gets serialized.

 

[DotNetter]

Rick, thanks for the tip!

BigTimmin - wow - perfect - thanks so much! [star]!!!

Dot