Top-level control cannot be added to a control?

[Bruce]

I am starting my first C## project. In one of my menu events I have the
following:

UserProfile winProfile = new UserProfile();
winProfile.Parent = this;
winProfile.Show();
UserProfile is a form, this is a MDI form.

When I do this, I get the error:

Top-level control cannot be added to a control

I also tried:

UserProfile winProfile = new UserProfile();
winProfile.Show(this);
Which shows user profile but not within the parent.
I did a search on this error butdid not find anything that applies.
What am I doing wrong?

[Mick Doherty]

winProfile.Parent = this;

winProfile.MdiParent = this;

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[Bruce]

Mick Doherty wrote:

>
winProfile.MdiParent = this;

Thanks