Custom drawing (layered) Embedded TabControls Error

I have a winform application that has tabcontrols that have 3 layers. I am dynamically coloring tabs using the below class. When it goes to color the built-in tabcontrol, it passes the fit.

A first chance exception of type 'System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll

      

        
        
        
      

    

Do I need to do something different for those? If I comment out the inline form calls for the tabRenderer, then I don't get these errors. Am I getting rid of the TabRenderer object correctly?

Could it be something else entirely? How do I embed tab controls?

An example of what my program looks like at the moment is given here ->

As you can see, there are 3 layers of tabs. This happens twice in the program and both cause the mentioned error. There are 6 calls to tabRenderer in total since there are 5 tab controls. 1 upper level, 3 second level and 2 third level.

The code used for coloring the tabs:

public class psTabRenderer
{
    private TabControl _tabControl;
    private Color _fillColor;
    private Color _selectedFillColor;
    private Color _textColor;
    private Color _selectedTextColor;

    public psTabRenderer(TabControl tabControl, Color fillColor, Color selectedFillColor, Color textColor, Color selectedTextColor)
    {
        _tabControl = tabControl;
        _fillColor = fillColor;
        _selectedFillColor = selectedFillColor;
        _textColor = textColor;
        _selectedTextColor = selectedTextColor;

        _tabControl.DrawMode = TabDrawMode.OwnerDrawFixed;
        _tabControl.DrawItem += TabControlDrawItem;
    }

    private void TabControlDrawItem(object sender, DrawItemEventArgs e)
    {
        TabPage currentTab = _tabControl.TabPages[e.Index];
        Rectangle itemRect = _tabControl.GetTabRect(e.Index);
        var fillBrush = new SolidBrush(_fillColor);
        var textBrush = new SolidBrush(_textColor);
        var sf = new StringFormat
        {
            Alignment = StringAlignment.Center,
            LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center
        };

        //If we are currently painting the Selected TabItem we'll
        //change the brush colors and inflate the rectangle.
        if (Convert.ToBoolean(e.State & DrawItemState.Selected))
        {
            fillBrush.Color = _selectedFillColor;
            textBrush.Color = _selectedTextColor;
            itemRect.Inflate(2, 2);
        }

        //Set up rotation for left and right aligned tabs
        if (_tabControl.Alignment == TabAlignment.Left || _tabControl.Alignment == TabAlignment.Right)
        {
            float rotateAngle = 90;
            if (_tabControl.Alignment == TabAlignment.Left)
                rotateAngle = 270;
            var cp = new PointF(itemRect.Left + (itemRect.Width / 2), itemRect.Top + (itemRect.Height / 2));
            e.Graphics.TranslateTransform(cp.X, cp.Y);
            e.Graphics.RotateTransform(rotateAngle);
            itemRect = new Rectangle(-(itemRect.Height / 2), -(itemRect.Width / 2), itemRect.Height, itemRect.Width);
        }

        //Next we'll paint the TabItem with our Fill Brush
        e.Graphics.FillRectangle(fillBrush, itemRect);

        //Now draw the text.
        e.Graphics.DrawString(currentTab.Text, e.Font, textBrush, (RectangleF)itemRect, sf);

        //Reset any Graphics rotation
        e.Graphics.ResetTransform();

        //Finally, we should Dispose of our brushes.
        fillBrush.Dispose();
        textBrush.Dispose();
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

And this is how I call it:

        private void frmMCPEmployment_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        FormPaint();
    }

    public void FormPaint()
    {
        // ToDo: This call to the Tab Renderer is throwing a Win32 "Error Creating Window Handle" 
        new psTabRenderer(tclEmployment, Color.LightSteelBlue, Color.Khaki, Color.Black, Color.Black);
    }