Question Is it possible to insert tabcontrol in a word 2007 Document?

[Lillos]

Hello!

I am quite new to programming and hope this forum will help me with a case i have.
I am using VB.net Visual Studio 2010 framework 4.0.

My question is this:
I am trying to make a word 2007 application which opens a document made in Visual Studio with lots of textboxes and comboboxes which is related to a access database and saves and retrieve data from the database. I wonder if its possible to make a tabcontrol with some pages and make richtextboxes inside the tabpages and make this visible in the document. The richtextboxes will be related to fields in the database. I cant find the TabControl in the toolbox so i am afraid this is not a part of the GUI of a word app!?

I have tried writing something like this but with no result:

Private sub myTabs()

Dim tabControl1 as New TabControl()
Dim tabPageA as New TabPage()
tabPage1.Text = "A"
Dim tabPageB as New TabPage()
tabPage1.Text = "B"

tabControl1.Controls.AddRange(New Control() {tabPageA, tabPageB}
tabControl1.Visible = true
tabControl1.BringToFront()
tabControl1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(100, 100)
tabControl1.Show()
tabControl.SelectedIndex = 1

end sub

But the tabControl will not appear in the word document. Why?
I have also tried to set the location to defined points in the document like bookmarks or panels like this because thats what i want (make the tabs visible on different defined locations in the document) but i am not sure if it will work:
tabControl.Location = Bookmarks("tab")

Can someone help me with this? nothing in the world would make mo more happier right now

Have a nice weekend

 

[JohnH]

You can create a Class Library project and make it a COM dll and reference and use that in Word VBA. See post 3: http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/component-development/28216-referencing-net-assembly-com-interop.html
Regular forms can be added to the class library, but it's inherited members won't have intellisense support in VBA, your own class members will though. I'd just add a method to call Show/ShowDialog.