Here\'s a newbie question on the WPF TabControl, TabItem and TabPanel. There is a related question on StackOVF with an answer I happily used in my app. Here\'s a link to the ans
You'll probably need to create a ControlTemplate to do this.
I'm not very familiar with ControlTemplates yet. I hacked this example from:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.primitives.tabpanel.aspx