Retrieve Tab Header content

Can anyone help me figure out a way to retreive the content of a tab header in WPF?

All I want is the text in the header so I can assign it to some other variable, but there d开发者_如何学Pythonoesn't seem to be any way of getting at it.

I am very new to WPF.. but the last hour or so googling this problem has not returned anything helpful.

Thanks

XAML:

<TabControl x:Name="tabControl">
            <TabItem>
                <TabItem.Header>
                    <TextBlock>SomeText</TextBlock>
                </TabItem.Header>
            </TabItem>
        </TabControl>

To access a Text:

((System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock)(((System.Windows.Controls.HeaderedContentControl)(this.tabControl.Items[0])).Header)).Text

To acces a Content Control:

 (System.Windows.Controls.HeaderedContentControl)(this.tabControl.Items[0])).Header)

You know how casting and such works, right?

<TabControl>
    <TabItem Name="_tabItem1" Header="MyHeader"/>
</TabControl>

//Header is an object and hence needs to be casted for retrieval as string
string headerText = (string)_tabItem1.Header;
MessageBox.Show(headerText);

TabItem.Header can be anything, even complex controls so if you did not set this to a string yourself you cannot retrieve it as string like this either.

Use TabItem.Header e.g. following code will set header of the first tab to "New header":

(tabControl1.Items[0] as TabItem).Header="New header";