Making a form a child of a control

[Tim A.]

In Delphi it's possible to make a form appear inside a panel control as a
child subform by setting the form's Parent property to the instance of the
control. When I try to do the same in .NET I get the error "Cannot make a
top-level control a child of another control". It would really be a huge
disappointment to find out that Windows Forms doesn't allow nesting of forms
inside panel controls, so I hope I'm just not doing it right.

Any suggestions?

 

[Tim A.]

Never mind, just found the answer:

myForm.TopLevel = false;
myForm.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
panel1.Controls.Add( myForm ); // or myForm.Parent = panel1;

Funny that setting TopLevel to false at design time didn't seem to do the
trick. It HAD to be set at runtime for the Parent assignment to work!

 

[Oriol]

Does anybody knows how to close a, TopLevel=False and child from another
control, form.

I open a from using the lines below but I cannot close it after.

Thanks.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Does anybody knows how to close a, TopLevel=False and child from another
control, form.

I open a from using the lines below but I cannot close it after.

Remove it from the container's 'Controls' collection and call its
'Close' method.