How to make TabPages draggable?

Question

I\'d like to enable user to rearrange TabPages order by dragging and dropping. Moreover it\'d be cool to enable user to drag TabPages from one TabControl to another. Both th

Answer 1

Based on onx23's answer.

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Utilities.Windows.Forms
{
    public class DraggableTabControl : TabControl
    {
        private TabPage predraggedTab;

        public DraggableTabControl() {
            this.AllowDrop = true;
        }

        protected override void OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e) {
            predraggedTab = getPointedTab();

            base.OnMouseDown(e);
        }

        protected override void OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e) {
            predraggedTab = null;

            base.OnMouseUp(e);
        }

        protected override void OnMouseMove(MouseEventArgs e) {
            if(e.Button == MouseButtons.Left && predraggedTab != null)
                this.DoDragDrop(predraggedTab, DragDropEffects.Move);

            base.OnMouseMove(e);
        }

        protected override void OnDragOver(DragEventArgs drgevent) {
            TabPage draggedTab = (TabPage) drgevent.Data.GetData(typeof(TabPage));
            TabPage pointedTab = getPointedTab();

            if(draggedTab == predraggedTab && pointedTab != null) {
                drgevent.Effect = DragDropEffects.Move;

                if(pointedTab != draggedTab)
                    swapTabPages(draggedTab, pointedTab);
            }

            base.OnDragOver(drgevent);
        }

        private TabPage getPointedTab() {
            for(int i=0; i

(Forgive me for necro-posting.)

UPDATE

I've written an implementation that allows both dragging and closing tabs (configurable), it's available on Bitbucket here.