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load a form within a form

Is there a way to load a form within a form. Say forexample, load a form within a panel?

I would like to be able to keep by code in separate forms, but I dont want to show the navigation controls for each form when I embed it in my main form.

Joseph

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heintalus

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armoghan

Another way is to make a Inherited Form, the parent form will contain the general functionality and the child form can have child functionality, but the controls of both the forms will be visible

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Ignacio Soler Garcia

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iboutchkine

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim f As New Form2()
f.TopLevel = False
Me.Controls.Add(f)
'f is in coordinates of form1
f.Left = 0
f.Top = 0
f.Show()
f.BringToFront()
End Sub

brokeMyLegBiking

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heintalus , SoMoS,

Your answers are BRILLIANT,BRILLIANT,BRILLIANT,BRILLIANT,BRILLIANT,BRILLIANT,BRILLIANT,BRILLIANT,BRILLIANT!!!!! This is great, your two solutions very much solves my problem. I have lost a lot of sleep over this! Now I can have my cake and eat it too! And the best part, they are very easy.

Question: What is the easiest way to convert a form to a userControl? Why do you need to set "topLevel" to false?

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Ignacio Soler Garcia

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brokeMyLegBiking

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you are right, I love the answer. :D

Ignacio Soler Garcia

Ops, I forgott one question:

'A TopLevel form is the one that hasn't a main form or the one that has as main form the desktop. The toplevel forms are used as the main form of the application. So to use it, the property has to be set to false because the form has a main form (f1).

SoMoS

P.D: Come'on with the points brother!

brokeMyLegBiking

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thanks again folks!