SftTabs/NET 3.0 - Tab Control for Windows Forms

SftTabs/NET is a Windows Forms tab control for the .NET Framework and .NET 10 (or later). Its tabs are displayed on any of the four sides of the control, in one scrollable row or in multiple rows, in a choice of looks ranging from the current Windows theme to flat, button, underline, document, rounded and pill styles.

Tab Control

SftTabs/NET offers many features, from a simple row of tabs to tabbed dialogs with multiple rows of tabs:

• Tabs on the top, bottom, left or right side of the control
• Eight tab looks: the current Windows theme, classic three-dimensional, flat, buttons, underline, document, rounded and pills
• One scrollable row of tabs or multiple rows of tabs, with several row layouts
• Tabs can consist of multiple parts, such as text, images, buttons, checkboxes, radiobuttons, progressbars, and more
• Horizontal or vertical tab text, with one or several lines
• Tab pages hosting the controls of each tab, or just the row of tabs without pages
• Close buttons on tabs
• Close, Minimize and Restore buttons
• Tabs can be reordered by the user by dragging them
• Hidden and disabled tabs
• Full color support throughout, including gradient fill of tabs
• Flyby highlighting
• Tooltips for tabs and buttons
• Drag detection for drag & drop
• Keyboard interface with mnemonics
• Tabs can be saved and loaded as XML documents
• Built-in UI Automation support for screen readers (Narrator, NVDA, JAWS and others)
• Dark mode support, automatically following the Windows light/dark setting
• Windows High Contrast accessibility support, honoring the user's contrast theme
• Per-Monitor v2 DPI awareness with optional scaling of images and pixel values
• Runs on the .NET Framework 4.7 (or later) and on .NET 10 (or later)
• Can be used in the same application as SftTree/NET 3.0

Royalties

Any application that you develop can use SftTabs/NET royalty-free in run-time mode; design-time features are not available. Each user (developer) who needs access to design-time features must license a copy of SftTabs/NET.

Languages Supported

SftTabs/NET supports all .NET languages used to create Windows Forms based applications. SftTabs/NET does not support Web applications.

Design-Time Environments Supported

SftTabs/NET is used with Visual Studio 2019 (and newer). Older versions of Visual Studio are not supported. SftTabs/NET requires the .NET Framework 4.7 (or later) or .NET 10 (or later).

Run-Time Environments Supported

SftTabs/NET supports the Windows platforms supported by the .NET Framework 4.7 (or later) and by .NET 10 (or later).

Source Code

The source code for this product is optionally available as part of our Enterprise Licensing program. For information about our Enterprise Licensing program, please contact our Sales department.