How to enable a control in a parent form mdi from its child form

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I am currently designing an app when the parent form is loaded all the controls are diabled apart from a login button for the user to login. i want that whenever a user login, the controls(e.g menustrip and toolstrip) in parent form to be enabled

Posted 27-Aug-12 19:30pm

Ese Ochuko

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ridoy · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-27T19:56:00

Solution 2

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sr/csharpgeneral/thread/ec08b222-e6de-44c8-a30b-fa79ea9676c0[^]
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mma1979/how-to-access-mdiparent-controls-from-child-forms/[^]

Posted 27-Aug-12 19:56pm

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Ese Ochuko 28-Aug-12 2:48am

Tnks alot

Ganesan Senthilvel · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-27T19:37:00

Solution 1

One of the solution is to add a property ContainerControl in Parent form controls to be enabled/disabled dynamically. Here is the journal article about component containter: http://www.wiredprairie.us/journal/2004/05/finding_the_component_containe.html[^]

Posted 27-Aug-12 19:37pm

Ganesan Senthilvel

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Ese Ochuko 28-Aug-12 2:46am

Thanks bro