How to create a WPF TabControl with multiple headers per TabItem?

Description:

Currently I'm in the process of creating a WPF application where the main content should be presented in a TabControl.

The TabControl exists of:

• A TabItem that contains an external control which has multiple views, whereby each view should be visible as Header on the TabControl;
• Multiple TabItems with our own content, each one with it's own header.

Styling of WPF controls is not the problem, but this case requires some special behaviour of the control itself. The problem is that the control should render multiple Headers per TabItem.

Questions:

• What is the best control to use for such a scenario?
• If using TabControl, what modifications should be made?

Thanks in advance.

Update #1

In response to vortex a prototype of such a control (as you can see, the external control is the Microsoft Office InfoPath FormControl):

   <TabControl x:Name="FormViewsTabControl">
      <TabItem>
         <TabItem.Headers>
            <TabItemHeader Text="View A" />
            <TabItemHeader Text="View B" />
         </TabItem.Headers>
         <TabItem.Content>
            &l开发者_C百科t;winforms:WindowsFormsHost x:Name="InfoPathFormsHost">
               <infopath:FormControl x:Name="InfoPathFormControl" />
            </winforms:WindowsFormsHost>
         </TabItem.Content>
      </TabItem>
      <TabItem Header="Letter">
         <local:CustomView />
      </TabItem>
   </TabControl>

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If i understand it correctly then you would like to change the TabItems header depending on which view you select in your external control. If that's the case then you should try to expand your external control with a property which holds the actual header value and then bind this to the TabItmes header.

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You can have it so that the TabItem.Header contains a Panel element, which can contain multiple child elements. Example:

<TabItem>
  <TabItem.Header>
    <StackPanel>
      <TextBlock Text="View A" />
      <TextBlock Text="View B" />
    </StackPanel>
  </TabItem.Header>
  <TabItem.Content>
    <winforms:WindowsFormsHost x:Name="InfoPathFormsHost">
      <infopath:FormControl x:Name="InfoPathFormControl" />
    </winforms:WindowsFormsHost>
  </TabItem.Content>
</TabItem>

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We used the following link

[http://zamjad.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/using-contenttemplateselector/]

when we faced with these type of issue