place a Form on a TabPage

[yoramo]

hello

I have a tabControl wite several pages I whould like to place a form ontop
of one of it's pages.
how do I do that?

Yoramo

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Set the TopLevel property of the form to false.

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[yoramo]

Hello Bob

There is no such property in my form!!, how does it help me to place a Form
on a TabPage?

thanks
Yoramo

 

[yoramo]

Well I figured it out !!

1. I change the baseclass of my Form to a TabPage
2. I remove the:
'AutoScaleBaseSize' property and the 'Load' Event if it is present (for
a DataForm it is!!)
3. compile and run.

thats it !! it works.

Yoramo

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Cool.

Maybe TopLevel is an advanced member.. ? Are you programming in VB?

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[yoramo]

No, C# is my prefered language.

can you explain what did you mean with TopLevel member?

yoramo

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I have a tabControl wite several pages I whould like to place a form ontop
of one of it's pages.
how do I do that?

Don't use a form, design and use a usercontrol instead.

 

[David]

Cool.

Maybe TopLevel is an advanced member.. ?

It is.

Are you programming in VB?

Well, both languages have the "hide advanced" feature, although I don't
know if the defaults are different.

yoramo,

What Bob is talking about here is that if you ever don't see a property
show up in intellisense when you know it should be there, go into
Tools-Options-Text Edit-C# (or VB)-General, and click OFF the "Hide
Advanced Members" checkbox.

 

[yoramo]

Thanks David !!
But I still do not understand how this TopLevel property helps placing a
Form on a TabPage or replace it.

yoramo.

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Form.TopLevel. From MSDN;

Gets or sets a value indicating whether to display the form as a top-level
window.


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[Bob Powell [MVP]]

When a Form has TopLevel set to false, it behaves more like a control and
can be added to container classes.

Herfried is correct in suggesting the use of a user control but some people
already have a form built and so can fudge it by resetting the TopLevel
property.

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Thanks David !!
But I still do not understand how this TopLevel property helps placing a
Form on a TabPage or replace it.

yoramo.

 

[Uri Dor]

I don't think you can, but using a UserControl can be what you're
looking for - create a new UserControl and on it put whatever controls
you need. you can put the UserControl on the tab page