I'm using VB.NET
I need same control (ListBox) to be displayed on 2 different tabs.
Is it mandatory to create 2 different ListBox instances?
If you don't need design-time support you can simply, at runtime, change the ListBox instance's Parent from one tab to the other (making sure to set the positioning appropriately, of course).
Essentially, it's:
listBox1.Parent = tabControl1.TabPages[1];
In the end though, you'll probably find it easier to just have two ListBox's with the same data source.
If you want full designer support, you'll need two boxes. If doing it in code is enough, you can create a single listbox on form load, and manually add a reference to it to each tab page.