Form in a Form?

[Storm33229]

I've seen this a few times before and am wondering on how I can do this...basically it's where you have a Main/Master/etc Form and you have mini forms inside of it, that can not leave the boundaries of the Main Form.

edit: maybe also known as...dock able forms?

[Khaz]

You'll want to look into MDI (multiple document interface) containers. MSDN has plenty of information on writing MDI applications and managing multiple child/parent forms.

[Jeff]

its rather simple tbh, in the designer there is a property for the form that says something like

IsMdiContainer

just change it to true.

Then to add a form to it when you create the form you do something like

Form f = new Form();
f.IsMdiChild = true;
f.MdiParent = MyMdiForm;
f.Show();