--- title: "C# winform change selected tabcontrol image" description: "C# winform change selected tabcontrol image" author: "Anonymous User" published: 2013-05-13 updated: 2013-05-13 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/881/c-sharp-winform-change-selected-tabcontrol-image category: "c#" tags: ["c#"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # C# winform change selected tabcontrol image Hi [Expert](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13120/an-expert-financial-advice-will-improve-your-finances)!\ I have a winform [application](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12824/calculator-application-in-android) written in C#. I had an imageList in my winform and I have a tabcontrol and each of the tab I assign a [image](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23551/an-investigate-distinctive-seafood-restaurant-for-your-image-stamp-character) as icon for the tab by \ changing ImageIndex.\ However they have only 1 image for each tab and I want them to change to another image for the selected tab (like another highlighted image for [active](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97113/why-does-an-active-ftp-not-work-with-network-firewalls) one). I have an \ idea to add all [images](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1067/what-is-the-php-predefined-variable-that-tells-the-what-type-of-images-that-php-support) to the imageList (both active and inactive images) and change the imageIndex of the selected tab. But I am not sure how to do it in practical.\ Here are my current codes that I can come up with:\ Inside SelectedIndexChange [event](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/167719/marquee-hire-benefits-of-event-lighting-hire-london), I have a [function](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13001/multi-statement-table-valued-user-defined-function-in-sql-server):\ [foreach](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33870/how-parallel-foreach-works-internally) (TabPage tab in tabControl1) { if (tab.[index](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/198/index-in-sql-server) == tabControl1.SelectedIndex) { <---how to get the index? tab.imageIndex = tab.index + tabControl1.TabCount; } else { tab.imageIndex = tab.index; }}\ Thanks in [advance](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/33258/jee-mains-and-jee-advance-exams)! ## Replies ### Reply by AVADHESH PATEL Hi John!\ You can try as following\ for (int i=0; i