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I am trying to create a form thaT WOULD ALWAYS BE ON THE BACKGROUND of the screen with menus on it. On the ToolBox i see Menus & toolbars, But i cant see the MainMenu control? or am looking for something else?

Thanks in advance.

Posted 28-Jul-10 0:52am

joseph k

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Do you have a small tutorial for making parent forms and child forms. and general intresting graphical interfaces.... Thanks alot

Posted 28-Jul-10 1:19am

joseph k

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nagendrathecoder 28-Jul-10 7:23am

You'll find many tutorial articles, just search for 5 mins on google.

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E.F. Nijboer · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-28T00:57:00

Solution 1

Just use the MenuStrip.

Good luck!

Posted 28-Jul-10 0:57am

E.F. Nijboer

nagendrathecoder · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-28T01:04:00

Solution 2

Set the IsMdiContainer property to True of the form you want to set as background.
It is called Parent form, all other forms will be its child forms.
But you have to assign value to MdiParent property of each child form. :)

Posted 28-Jul-10 1:04am

nagendrathecoder