Hopefully someone has tried this before.

I have a group of controls, mostly textboxes & comboboxes that are placed on a groupbox control. This groupbox is then placed on a tab of a tab control.

What I would like to happen is that on the form load, the controls that are inside the groupbox would be unenabled but the tab control to be enabled so the user can select the correct tab. Once the correct tab is selected they will then select a New button that will enabled the controls within the groupbox.

I have it working so that either all of the controls, including the tab are enabled or unenabled. If I unenable the tab control then all of the controls on the groupbox are then unenabled and if I enable the tab control the controls in the groupbox are enabled.

From what I understand the controls placed on the "parent" control will then take on the characteristics of the "parent" but isn't there a way to get around that?

Thanks