Please try some thing like this , I am not sure from question you mean the same :
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
tabPage1listView1.Items.Add("Tab1ListView1Item1");
tabPage1listView1.Items.Add("Tab1ListView1Item2");
tabPage1listView1.Items.Add("Tab1ListView1Item3");
tabPage1listView2.Items.Add("Tab1ListView2Item1");
tabPage1listView2.Items.Add("Tab1ListView2Item2");
tabPage1listView2.Items.Add("Tab1ListView2Item3");
tabPage2listView1.Items.Add("Tab2ListView1Item1");
tabPage2listView1.Items.Add("Tab2ListView1Item2");
tabPage2listView1.Items.Add("Tab2ListView1Item3");
tabPage2listView2.Items.Add("Tab2ListView2Item1");
tabPage2listView2.Items.Add("Tab2ListView2Item2");
tabPage2listView2.Items.Add("Tab2ListView2Item3");
tabPage3listView1.Items.Add("Tab3ListView1Item1");
tabPage3listView1.Items.Add("Tab3ListView1Item2");
tabPage3listView1.Items.Add("Tab3ListView1Item3");
tabPage3listView2.Items.Add("Tab3ListView2Item1");
tabPage3listView2.Items.Add("Tab3ListView2Item2");
tabPage3listView2.Items.Add("Tab3ListView2Item3");
tabControl1.SelectedIndex = 1;
tabControl1.SelectedIndex = 0;
}
private void tabControl1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
TabControl Tabctrl = (TabControl)sender;
string SelectedTab= Tabctrl.SelectedTab.Name;
ListView lstviewtemp1 = new ListView();
ListView lstviewtemp2 = new ListView();
lstviewtemp1 = (ListView)tabControl1.TabPages[SelectedTab].Controls[SelectedTab + "listview1"];
lstviewtemp2 = (ListView)tabControl1.TabPages[SelectedTab].Controls[SelectedTab + "listview2"];
listView1.Items.Clear();
listView2.Items.Clear();
foreach (ListViewItem item in lstviewtemp1.Items)
{
listView1.Items.Add(item.Text);
}
foreach (ListViewItem item in lstviewtemp2.Items)
{
listView2.Items.Add(item.Text);
}
}
}
}