How to open a child form in a MDI form on startup

[PKuhne]

How do I open a child form in an MDI form at startup of a windows
application.
TIA

 

[Eric Cadwell]

In the load event of the MDI form:

Form child = new Form2(); // Where Form2 is the class name of the form you
want to display
child.MdiParent = this;
child.Show();


HTH;
Eric Cadwell
http://www.origincontrols.com

 

[PKuhne]

Thank you, this worked.
Now in my 3 .net books I do not find what to do about this:
With the child.show(ing) as per code below, how can I write (from a sub
inside the child form) to the statusbar1.panels(1).text of the parent (this
is in VB)?
I expected to simply set frm_mdi.statusbar1.panels(1).text="my text", but
statusbar does not show up in the member list for the parent form. So my
guess is that the open parent from cannot be "seen" from the child form. How
do I do this?
TIA

 

[spp]

Have you resolved this ?
How ?

Thank you, this worked.
Now in my 3 .net books I do not find what to do about this:
With the child.show(ing) as per code below, how can I write (from a sub
inside the child form) to the statusbar1.panels(1).text of the parent
(this
is in VB)?
I expected to simply set frm_mdi.statusbar1.panels(1).text="my text", but
statusbar does not show up in the member list for the parent form. So my
guess is that the open parent from cannot be "seen" from the child form.
How
do I do this?
TIA