Visual Studio IDE How-To

[Guest]

Hi There!

I have this question I would like to share with you. How can I make an
application like Visual Studio IDE?
One MDI parent form.
Several MDI children forms.

Seems easy?
In MDI parent it should be a tree docked left, similar to VS.2005 control
panel where controls are listed.
Each time a mdi children is activated/deactivated this tree should changed
to reflect the functionality of mdi children. (Design/Code view with forms)

One idea I had was to create a menu in mdichildren with the tree and this
menu would merge to mdiparent.

It's still easy? Don't know if I'm making myself clear.
Post your question/solutions (preferably).

Waiting for your posts,

Rui Dias

 

[Guest]

Forgot to mention:
Programming Language: Visual Basic 2005

 

[David Wier]

Step 1: Create new project - name the default form however you'd like (for
the child form)
Step 2: Add a new Windows Form to the project - from the window that opens,
choose MDI Parent form (name it however you'd like)

There are others, but you won't believe how far this will get you.

David Wier
ASPNet101.com

 

[Guest]

I deserved it.
Good answer!
But it doesn’t fulfill my needs. What I really need, is a way to have a
component (like a treebrowser, navigator, etc.) in MDI parent that would
communicate with mdi children each and one mdi children. More!, according to
each form active this component must be able to have different values.
The philosophy is the same of the menus that are merged into mdi parent and
that are merged/unmerged according to the active/enactive mdi children.