Thank you both for your quick replies. It does seem like Visual Studio doesn't have an easy way to create a class to hold all the controls in a tab page. I'm not sure if this was the meaning of having each "tab page containing a control" but I took that idea and added a UserControl which created a container for my buttons and such. When I added it to the tab page it displays the design at least (although I couldn't edit it directly) and it does route the events to the UserControl UI correctly. Is this how you suggest I do it? Or is there something simpler? Thanks again.

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I'm also quite new to C# but I find "Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2005: The Language" by Donis Marshall (ISBN-10: 0-7356-2181-0, published by Microsoft Press) to be a pretty good reference. It isn't for the raw beginner but if you are familiar with programming and object-oriented concepts it is pretty good.

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I have a TabControl in my application. I have several TabPage's in it and as I add more my main form class is getting more and more cluttered. When you add an event (such as a button click) to a tab page, Visual Studio adds the code to the main form. It seems to me that it would make sense to create a class for each tab page and have the buttons owned by it instead of the main form. Is there a standard way to do this? I've searched the net and haven't found any examples. Thanks much! --- "No one would surrender to the Dread Pirate Westley."