How to prevent merging of child form title bar with tool strip of main form in MDI applicaiton in c#

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Can anyone please help in how to prevent merging of title bar of child form with tool strip of main form when the child form is maximized in MDI application in c#
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Posted 20-May-14 2:48am

Devadutta Achary

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Stephen Hewison 20-May-14 8:57am

The whole purpose of MDI is to dock the child window. But I think, there's an OnMaximize event you can use to override the behaviour and instead set the window position to 0, 0 and the width/height to the container viewport size. This will in effect maximize the window to the parent without actually maximizing the window.

Ziee-M 20-May-14 9:23am

hi, first you have to set the childform WindowState to default (you may find it in the properties of the form). 
 
Then, when instanciating a new child, 
 
child.Dock = DockStyle.Fill; 
 
*Optional: 
you have to disable the MaxemizeBox to false (child properties) so the user can't force the window to its max. 
 
Finally, in case the child donn't automatically resize when the parent container change size, you have to write some code in the form size changed event. 
 
I 'am not 100% sure it will work for you because i am useing a ribbon (Graphic Dll like Microsoft office, you may check it in code project articles, pretty beautiful for MDI system). 
Hope it helps

Link for the ribbon MDI System : http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/364272/Easily-Add-a-Ribbon-into-a-WinForms-Application-Cs

PS: using this ribbon will force you to install .Net FrameWork 4.0 full on client machine instead of .NetFrameWork 4.0 client profile. for windows 8, .NetFrameWork 4.0 full is installed by default, not the case for Windows 7.

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