Best practice for embedding forms

[Baliga, Narasimha]

Hi,



I am trying to write an app which will have say a MainForm that has a
TreeView and a Panel control on it. The project also has 2 other forms.



Now the TreeView would have 2 nodes and on each node click one of the 2
forms will be created (if not created before) and is shown embedded in the
main form inside the panel.



So I have code like this



if (frmScheduler == null)

{

frmScheduler = new SchedulerFrm();

//frmScheduler.Owner = this;

frmScheduler.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;

}

frmScheduler.TopLevel = false;

frmScheduler.Parent = panelControl1;

frmScheduler.Show();

My question is that would this be the best way of acheiving it? The above
code is for say Form1, I will have similar code for Form2. Object pointer
variable that holds the form object would be defined under the MainFrm. I
need to hide the form1 when Form2 is being shown.

regards

Baliga

 

[Ward Bekker]

Hi Baliga,

User Controls can be "embedded" on the parent form. Take a look in the
docs:


http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...rfsystemwindowsformsusercontrolclasstopic.asp




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[Baliga, Narasimha]

Hi Bekker,

Yeah I like the User Controls - they seem like a better approach as I can
then re-use them in any form. I will go ahead with this implementation as of
now.

regards
Baliga