Windows Phone 7TabControl

By default, the Windows Phone 7 SDK doesn't have a TabControl. It is a quite useful component already available in Silverlight . In order to use this control a complete re-write is not necessary. All that needs to be done is adding a reference to System.Windows.Controls - a standard Silverlight library that is located at:   C:\Program Files \Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v4.0\Libraries\Client  Next step is adding the assembly reference as a namespace pointer in the work XAML

xmlns:cc="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls"

To add the control to the workspace:

<cc:TabControl>
    <cc:TabItem Height="80" Width="80" Header="Tab 1" Foreground="Black"></cc:TabItem>
    <cc:TabItem Height="80" Width="80" Header="Tab 2" Foreground="Black"></cc:TabItem>
    <cc:TabItem Height="80" Width="80" Header="Tab 3" Foreground="Black"></cc:TabItem>
    <cc:TabItem Height="80" Width="80" Header="Tab 4" Foreground="Black"></cc:TabItem>
    <cc:TabItem Height="80" Width="80" Header="Tab 5" Foreground="Black"></cc:TabItem>
</cc:TabControl>

tha main.xaml is having following layout

<phone:PhoneApplicationPage 
    x:Class="HelloWorldAdvanced.MainPage"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
    xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:cc="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="480" d:DesignHeight="768"
    FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
    FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
    Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"
    SupportedOrientations="Portrait" Orientation="Portrait"
    shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True">

    <!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->
    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>

        <!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->
        <StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">
            <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" Text="Tab Demo" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>
            <TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle" Text="First Page" Margin="9,-7,0,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}"/>
        </StackPanel>

        <!--ContentPanel - place additional content here-->
        <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">
            
            <cc:TabControl>
                <cc:TabItem Height="80" Width="80" Header="Tab 1" Foreground="Black"></cc:TabItem>
                <cc:TabItem Height="80" Width="80" Header="Tab 2" Foreground="Black"></cc:TabItem>
                <cc:TabItem Height="80" Width="80" Header="Tab 3" Foreground="Black"></cc:TabItem>
                <cc:TabItem Height="80" Width="80" Header="Tab 4" Foreground="Black"></cc:TabItem>
                <cc:TabItem Height="80" Width="80" Header="Tab 5" Foreground="Black"></cc:TabItem>
            </cc:TabControl>

        </Grid>
    </Grid>
 
    <!--Sample code showing usage of ApplicationBar-->
    <!--<phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>
        <shell:ApplicationBar IsVisible="True" IsMenuEnabled="True">
            <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button1.png" Text="Button 1"/>
            <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button2.png" Text="Button 2"/>
            <shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems>
                <shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 1"/>
                <shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 2"/>
            </shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems>
        </shell:ApplicationBar>
    </phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>-->

</phone:PhoneApplicationPage>

the screen shot demo is given below