How to delete a tab page created in one method from another method?

[Alex Dransfield]

For example, if I want to do this

private void ProcessLogin()
            {
                TabPage welcomeTab = new TabPage("Welcome");
                welcomeTab.BackColor = SystemColors.Control;

                tabControl1.TabPages.Remove(loginTab);
                tabControl1.TabPages.Add(welcomeTab);
            }

and my tab control is created in this method

private void FirstLogin()
        {
            TabPage loginTab = new TabPage("Login");
            
            loginTab.BackColor = SystemColors.Control;

            tabControl1.TabPages.Add(loginTab); // add the tab

            Label loginLabel = new Label();
            loginLabel.Text = "You are required to log in before you can access the system.";
            loginLabel.AutoSize = true;

            Label userName = new Label();
            userName.Text = "Username: ";
            userName.AutoSize = true;
            userName.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 30);

            TextBox userTB = new TextBox();
            userTB.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(61, 28);
            userTB.KeyPress += new System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventHandler(CheckKey);

            Label password = new Label();
            password.Text = "Password: ";
            password.AutoSize = true;
            password.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 60);
            
            TextBox userPass = new TextBox();
            userPass.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(61, 58);
            userPass.PasswordChar = '*';
            userPass.KeyPress += new System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventHandler(CheckKey);

            Button loginButton = new Button();
            loginButton.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 90);
            loginButton.Text = "Login";
            loginButton.Click += new System.EventHandler(loginButton_Click);

            loginTab.Controls.Add(loginLabel);
            loginTab.Controls.Add(userName);
            loginTab.Controls.Add(userTB);
            loginTab.Controls.Add(userPass);
            loginTab.Controls.Add(password);
            loginTab.Controls.Add(loginButton);
        }

How do I remove it?

[Markus]

Doesn't feel like the best design, but you could retain the login form's tab as a property of the class. Then you'd have access to it from the other methods. After removing the tab from the TabPage, you could nullify it, and then it would be a candidate for GC (I assume).

Mark.

P.S. Not a .NET guy.