C# how can you add a tab in a tabcontrol but preset what the tab contains and any coding within that tab?

There's a couple of ways you could save and re-create the tabs but I guess the simplest would be using Settings. Depending on what information you need to store to re-display the right data on each TabPage this might work: Assuming all you need to re-create the tabs is the database table name... Create a custom control which has the TextBox(s) you want to display. Depending on how you access your database in your application you want to modify the Constructor so it accepts either: 1. String - the name of the table the TextBox(s) should be linked to. or 2. The information already retrieved from the table. Whenever the "Add New" button is clicked: TabPage newPage = new TabPage(); newPage.Name = "newPage"; newPage.Text = "Tab text"; MyControl tabContent = new MyControl("table_name"); newPage.Controls.Add(tabContent); theTabControl.TabPages.Add(newPage); In your form's Closing event you'll want to loop over the tab pages and create a List of each one - storing the table name they link to. Then save that List as a Setting. When the application starts just load the List of table names and do the same as for "Add New"

find what you like then go to file and hit new tab and duplicate it great way to go where you want theres no codeing