# ButchersBoy/Dragablz

Dragable and tearable tab control for WPF

Repository: https://github.com/ButchersBoy/Dragablz
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dragablz
Homepage: http://dragablz.net
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-05-22T06:01:01+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4308, "days_push": 833, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2323, forks 341 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:37.233469+00:00)

## What it is
Dragablz is an open-source WPF tab control library for .NET that provides draggable, tearable tabs along with docking, floating tool windows, and MDI layouts. It supports MVVM, is fully themeable (including Material Design and MahApps themes), and requires minimal XAML to get started.

## Use cases
- add tearable tabs to a WPF application
- implement Chrome-style draggable tab control in WPF
- build docking and MDI layouts in a .NET desktop app
- create floating tool windows in WPF
- style WPF tabs with Material Design or MahApps themes

## When to choose
- you are building a WPF desktop app and need advanced tab behavior like tearing tabs out into separate windows
- you want docking, tool windows, or MDI support with minimal XAML
- you use Material Design in XAML Toolkit or MahApps and want matching tab styles

## When to avoid
- you are not targeting WPF/.NET on Windows
- you need a cross-platform UI toolkit like Avalonia or MAUI
- you only need simple static tabs without drag, dock, or tear functionality

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, animation, state-management
- domain: desktop-applications, web-development, cross-platform
- platform: windows, dotnet
- tags: wpf, tab-control, docking, mdi, xaml, tearable-tabs, material-design, mahapps, desktop

## Member repositories
- ButchersBoy/Dragablz (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.233469+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:38:35.156992+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ButchersBoy/Dragablz (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.233469+00:00, sha 86b2593ef54a)
  - homepage: http://dragablz.net (fetched 2026-08-29T10:18:48.918128+00:00, sha 508cfac648ae)
  - site_page: https://dragablz.net/about (fetched 2026-08-29T10:18:48.941042+00:00, sha d6755a05fca4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.