Moving between forms in VB.NET

Steven Thomas

Ok, I am a newbee at vb.net and I have written an application with
multiple forms. I have created a form named frmbase with all other
forms are inherited from. frmbase has my menu on it. I have set
frmbase as the startup form. This all works great, however when I go
to form 2 I get a new window, and I would like for it to stay in the
same window that frmBase was in so I don't have lots of windows open
as a user is working.

Can someone point in the right direction to do this?

Thanks

Nov 20 '05 #1

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

* st******@gapac. com (Steven Thomas) scripsit:

Ok, I am a newbee at vb.net and I have written an application with
multiple forms. I have created a form named frmbase with all other
forms are inherited from. frmbase has my menu on it. I have set
frmbase as the startup form. This all works great, however when I go
to form 2 I get a new window, and I would like for it to stay in the
same window that frmBase was in so I don't have lots of windows open
as a user is working.

Instead of designing forms, design usercontrols that are dynamically
instantiated/removed from the form.

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Nov 20 '05 #2

Steven Thomas

Sounds good but I have about 20 forms built and working. Is there not a
better way to do this? If not is there and easy way to covert my forms
to controls?

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Nov 20 '05 #3

Chris Dunaway

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:26:19 -0700, Steven Thomas wrote:

Sounds good but I have about 20 forms built and working. Is there not a
better way to do this? If not is there and easy way to covert my forms
to controls?

One method is to open the forms inside the main form. In the main form,
add a panel to hold the other forms.

For each of the other forms, set their border style to None.

Then to load the form into the panel, do something like this (check syntax)

Private Sub LoadFormIntoPan el()
Dim MyForm2 as New Form2
MyForm2.Size = pnlContent.Size
MyForm2.TopLeve l = False
MyForm2.Parent = pnlContent
MyForm2.Show
End Sub

This code will show the form inside the panel. Be sure that, as you load
and unload forms, you dispose of them properly, etc.

This should give you some ideas. I don't know if it's better, but you wont
have to change your forms.

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Nov 20 '05 #4

Steven Thomas

Chris
Thanks for then info. It seems simple enough. However I got the
first form to load in the panel. Then how do I close it and load the
second. I don't seem to be able to determine which form is loaded and
how to close it?

Nov 20 '05 #5

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