How to set Key of a Tabpage programatically?

Question

How to set Key for a tabpage

I have a tabcontrol1 in which i am adding a tabpage programatically.

TabPage tabpagep1=new TabPage("");
tabpagep1.Name = "tp1";
tabpage1.text="netabpage1"
tabcontrol1.TabPages.Add(tabpagep1);

How can I set the KEY of the tabpage1?

Answer 1

There is nothing called as TabPage Key.

Key is the name of the TabPage. So, Setting the Name property of your TabPage should work.

TabPage tabpagep1=new TabPage("");
tabpagep1.Name = "tp1";
tabpage1.text="netabpage1";
tabcontrol1.TabPages.Add(tabpagep1);

Later you can read it like

TabPage tp1 = tabcontrol1.TabPages["tp1"];

Answer 2

The doc says it all : The Name property corresponds to the key for a Tab Page

Key is nothing but the Name of Tab Page

if (tabcontrol1.TabPages.ContainsKey("tabpagename")) 
{
   //select existing tab page by "Name" or say "Key"
  tabcontrol1.SelectTab("tabpagename");
}
else
{
   //create new tab page
  TabPage tabpagep1 = new TabPage("");
  tabpagep1.Name = "tabpagename";    
  tabcontrol1.TabPages.Add(tabpagep1);
}