You can easily build a tab control from the scratch with markup codes. There are two elements TabControl and TabItem which plays main roles in building a tab control. TabControl is the container of one or more TabItem elements.
Each TabControl can contain a collection of TabItem elements. TabItem has two specific attributes. Header and IsSelected where Header is the string value that you see on top of each tab and IsSelected is a Boolean value that specifies if a tab is selected. Apparently only one tab can be selected at a time. Below is an example of a TabControl with three TabItem. <Window x:Class="Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="UseTabControl" Height="300" Width="300">
<Grid>
<TabControl Name="TabControl1" SelectedIndex="0">
<TabItem Name="tabName" Header="Name">
<StackPanel Margin="20,20,0,0">
<StackPanel Height="Auto" Width="Auto" Orientation="Horizontal">
<Label Height="25.96" Width="84">First Name</Label>
<TextBox Height="25" Width="147" />
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Height="Auto" Width="Auto" Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBox Height="25" Width="147" />
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</TabItem>
<TabItem Name="tabAddress" Header="Address">
<StackPanel Margin="20,20,0,0" >
<StackPanel Height="Auto" Width="Auto" Orientation="Horizontal">
<Label Height="25.96" Width="84">Full Address</Label>
<TextBox Height="25" Width="147" />
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</TabItem>
<TabItem Name="tabPicture" Header="Picture">
<Image Margin="50,66,67,50" Name="Image1" Source="c:\Image.jpeg" Stretch="Uniform" StretchDirection="DownOnly" />
</TabControl>
</Grid>
</Window>
OUTPUT
Result after click on Tab1
Tab2
Tab3
CONCLUSION
I hope this will help you to understand TabControl in WPF Application.