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[arstacey]

I have created a form (frmMain) which will be the main form for my program when it launches (it will launch Full Screen). I have created a few other forms which will launch from a toolbar I have added to the main form (I will call one of the child forms frmContacts to use in my example).

Both forms launch fine. The problem is that when I press the button to launch frmContacts, it is not attached to the frmMain. If I minimize frmMain, frmContacts will still be up on screen. Likewise, If both are open and if I click anywhere on frmMain, it becomes the focus and frmContacts fall behind it. It is like even though I launched it with a button in frmMain, it is a second program - not a part of frmMain.

I would like to somehow set frmContacts to be locked to a specific position on frmMain just like any other program and only work within frmMain, but I cannot figure out how to do so.

By the way, I am using VB.Net from Visual Studio 2003.

[Dave]

All you need here is an MDI form. Add an MDI Form to your project, then add a regular form and set it's MDIChild property to true. In the load event of the MDI form make your regular form visible (form1.visible=true). MDI form's are containers for other forms.
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