form inside a form

[Jessica Weiner]

I have two windows forms in an application. I want one form to be embedded
into the other. How can this be done? Can I do something like:

Form1.Controls.Add(Form2);

Thanks.
Jess

 

[Tim Wilson]

You can go the MDI route if that makes sense in your application - you have
a main Form that hosts multiple "documents". Otherwise, literally embedded a
Form onto another Form as if it were a control can be done; however, are you
sure you don't want to build a container control, like a UserControl, and
then place instances of this control on the Form?
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...5a7e8/9875d20fdf3ce25b?hl=en#9875d20fdf3ce25b

 

[Jessica Weiner]

You can go the MDI route if that makes sense in your application -
you have a main Form that hosts multiple "documents". Otherwise,
literally embedded a Form onto another Form as if it were a control
can be done; however, are you sure you don't want to build a
container control, like a UserControl, and then place instances of
this control on the Form?

I looked into Mdi and it was exactly what I needed. Thanks, that was very
helpful.

Jess

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

I looked into Mdi and it was exactly what I needed. Thanks, that was very
helpful.

Note that MDI is intended for a window to "potentially" contain more than
one window, if you always will have a single window inside you would go
better transforming the second form in a usercontrol or a panel