Windows MDI Forms and MDI Children Forms

[tmf123]

Hello,

I am taking a stab at creating a Windows form and need to create several children forms to this application as well. I come from the .net web development arena but have never created a WinForm based application before.

My understanding is that I need to create an MDI application with MDI children associated with it. I have created the MDIParent form with all of the associated toolbars and status bars and a layout control.

I just created a second form that I need to act as a child to the MDIParent. Immdiately I could not find out how to attach this to the MDIParent. Further research on Microsoft is giving me the impression that I should have created a form that inherits from the MDIParent.

Is this the correct approach?

I really just want to have new children open up based on what is selected in my menu system.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Tim

[bplacker]

Once you have a form created which has the MdiParent property = true, here is what you need to do in order to open up a form as an Mdi child:

dim childForm as frmName 'where frmName is the form you want to open
childForm.MdiParent = Me '(or whichever form is the MdiParent)
childForm.show()

[tmf123]

bplacker,

Thanks for your time in replying.

I'm really surprised that with all the advancements that Microsoft made with VS2005 that they didn't come up with a way you could accomplish this through the GUI. This should be something you could accomplosh through the properties panel or by right clicking on the form itself.

Thanks again.

Tim