VB.NET wizard form

[Paul Taylor]

Hi all,

I'm writing an app in VB.NET and want it to look and behave like a typical
application wizard (i.e. with the usual Next, Cancel, Back etc). Should I
be looking to use multiple forms or is there a better, cleaner way of doing
it?

Cheers

Paul Taylor

 

[Cyril Gupta]

Hello Paul,

For this sort of thing I usually use a Panel. Put some controls in it and
set their visibile property to True False to toggle their appearence.

That should do it for you Paul.

Regards
Cyril Gupta

 

[Mick Doherty]

You can use a TabControl with a minor modification. Just use buttons to
increment/decrement the SelectedIndex of the TabControl.

For the modifications needed for the TabControl see the example on my site
titled "Add a HideTabs property to turn on/off the Tabs"
http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/tabcontrols.html

 

[Paul Taylor]

Hi Mick,

Thanks for that, looks like that's the way to go, a fine trick!

Cheers

Paul

"Mick Doherty"

 

[Cyril Gupta]

Hello Mick

Thanks for the article. I am not using it for the wizard, but it solved an
entirely different problem I was having with the TabControl.

cheers to you.

Cyril Gupta

 

[Mick Doherty]

Would that problem be that TabPages are not shown when Alignment is not set
to Top and Appearance is not set to Normal? I have updated the example to
fix that too, but my ISP probably won't update the page for a couple of days
so you won't see that yet.