C# – WPF: Which solution? TabControl with close button and new tab button

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I'm trying to find the best solution for a TabControl that both support a close button on each TabItem, and always show a "new tab button" as the last tab.

I've found some half working solutions, but i think that was for MVVM, that I'm not using. Enough to try to understand WPF =)

This is the best solution I've found so far:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/493538/Add-Remove-Tabs-Dynamically-in-WPF

A solution that i actually understand. But the problem is that it is using the ItemsSource, and i don't want that. I want to bind the ItemsSource to my own collection without having to have special things in that collection to handle the new tab button.

I've been search for days now but cant find a good solution.
And I'm really new to WPF, otherwise i could probably have adapted the half done solutions I've found, or make them complete. But unfortunately that is way out of my league for now.

Any help appreciated.

Best Answer

I have an open source library which supports MVVM and allows extra content, such as a button to be added into the tab strip. It is sports Chrome style tabs which can tear off.

http://dragablz.net

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C# – Create Generic method constraining T to an Enum

Since Enum Type implements IConvertible interface, a better implementation should be something like this:

public T GetEnumFromString<T>(string value) where T : struct, IConvertible
{
   if (!typeof(T).IsEnum) 
   {
      throw new ArgumentException("T must be an enumerated type");
   }

   //...
}

This will still permit passing of value types implementing IConvertible. The chances are rare though.

C# – String representation of an Enum

Try type-safe-enum pattern.

public sealed class AuthenticationMethod {

    private readonly String name;
    private readonly int value;

    public static readonly AuthenticationMethod FORMS = new AuthenticationMethod (1, "FORMS");
    public static readonly AuthenticationMethod WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION = new AuthenticationMethod (2, "WINDOWS");
    public static readonly AuthenticationMethod SINGLESIGNON = new AuthenticationMethod (3, "SSN");        

    private AuthenticationMethod(int value, String name){
        this.name = name;
        this.value = value;
    }

    public override String ToString(){
        return name;
    }

}

Update Explicit (or implicit) type conversion can be done by

adding static field with mapping
```
private static readonly Dictionary<string, AuthenticationMethod> instance = new Dictionary<string,AuthenticationMethod>();
```
- n.b. In order that the initialisation of the the "enum member" fields doesn't throw a NullReferenceException when calling the instance constructor, be sure to put the Dictionary field before the "enum member" fields in your class. This is because static field initialisers are called in declaration order, and before the static constructor, creating the weird and necessary but confusing situation that the instance constructor can be called before all static fields have been initialised, and before the static constructor is called.
filling this mapping in instance constructor
```
instance[name] = this;
```

and adding user-defined type conversion operator

public static explicit operator AuthenticationMethod(string str)
{
    AuthenticationMethod result;
    if (instance.TryGetValue(str, out result))
        return result;
    else
        throw new InvalidCastException();
}

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