devexpress-winforms-tab-control

devexpress-winforms-tab-control is a skill for Claude Code from DevExpress/agent-skills. It costs 216 tokens per session (4,181 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to DevExpress XtraTabControl, a WinForms control that organizes content into pages selected through clickable tabs. Each tab can contain other controls, such as settings fields or editor panels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add, remove, reorder, and fill tab pages in settings dialogs, multi-section editors, and property panels.
Why use it?
It helps structure several related sections in one part of a desktop window without building separate windows. It also clarifies when a different control is needed for movable or rearrangeable documents.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the dx-winforms plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to add, remove, reorder, and fill tab pages in settings dialogs, multi-section editors, and property panels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-winforms-tab-control
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add DevExpress/agent-skills --skill devexpress-winforms-tab-control
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DevExpress/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dx-winforms, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 216 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,181 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00216 $0.04181
Opus 5 $0.00108 $0.02090
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00836
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00418

Measured 12d ago against content hash a30ad13c7a89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devexpress-winforms-tab-control scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/dx-winforms/skills/devexpress-winforms-tab-control/SKILL.md · 298 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 298 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevExpress WinForms Tab Control

XtraTabControl is a container that organizes other controls into pages. Each page is an XtraTabPage with a clickable header; the active page fills the control's body. Use it to build a tabbed UI in a local area of a form — a settings dialog, a multi-section editor, a property pane.

Pages live in the XtraTabControl.TabPages collection. The active page is XtraTabControl.SelectedTabPage. The control lives in the DevExpress.XtraTab namespace and ships with the DevExpress.Win.Navigation NuGet package.

Use Cases and Alternatives: XtraTabControl is for organizing controls into pages in a fixed, local area — users cannot undock or rearrange pages. If you need a true MDI / document interface (floating, draggable, on-demand-loaded documents), use the Application UI Manager / DocumentManager or the simpler XtraTabbedMdiManager instead. For a browser-like form with page headers in the title bar, see Tabbed Form.

When to Use This Skill

  • Adding a tabbed page UI to a form (settings, multi-section editor, property pane)
  • Adding, removing, or reordering XtraTabPage pages in code or the designer
  • Placing controls onto tab pages
  • Positioning / orienting page headers (top, bottom, left, right; horizontal or vertical text)
  • Wrapping headers into multiple rows when they don't fit (MultiLine)
  • Showing Prev / Next / Close buttons in the header panel, or per-page Close buttons
  • Responding to page selection (SelectedPageChanged/SelectedPageChanging) or close (CloseButtonClick) events
  • Hiding headers and implementing wizard-style custom page navigation
  • Adding icons or custom buttons to page headers

Prerequisites & Installation

NuGet Package

DevExpress.Win.Navigation
Install-Package DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Read the full file on GitHub · 298 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 298 lines · 216 tokens per session scan A a30ad13c7a89

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devexpress-winforms-tab-control is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevExpress/agent-skills (53 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 216 tokens to every session and 4,181 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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