title: WinForms Tab Control question
body: <p>I have a form that displays in two modes. Switching modes completely changes the appearance of the form much like you would expect if you were using a tab control and had a different layout of controls on each tab.</p>
  
  <p>A tab control would be perfect if I could hide the tab itself. </p>
  
  <p>Of course, I could use two panels and pro grammatically show and hide the appropriate panels. I tried this, but my anchoring keeps on getting messed up (I think it is a Visual Studio designer bug.) </p>
  
  <p>Ideally, I'd like to use a "wizard" control, which is tab-less, and at designtime, draw the controls for the first page, switch the "PageNumber" property to page two, and then drop controls onto the second page. </p>
  
  <p>I thought the TabControl had functionality to appear without tabs, which would lend itself nicely to creating a Wizard style interface, for example.</p>
  
  <p>What's the best way to do this so that my design time appearance mimics the run-time? </p>
  
  <p>At the moment, I have 2 panels, one directly over the other and I flip-flop the visible property of each and my auto anchoring is getting all messed up by VS. I may have to resort to writing my own archoring code, which isnt hard, but I like it when the design env reacts as closely as possibility to how the screen will look when it runs. It just makes life easier.</p>
  
  <p>I have Telerik Q3 WinForm controls, too, in case there is an alternative in that control set...</p>
  
  <p>Suggestions?</p>