Designing Forms in VB.NET 2008

**Vinny777** · 01-12-2009, 06:45 PM

Hi,

I am transitioning from VB6 to VB.NET 2008 environment.

Suppose I have a ToolStrip1 at the top of my Form1.

I want to be able to display different forms within Form1 when I click on buttons on my ToolStrip1.

So if I click on Button1, I will display FormA within Form1. If I click on Button2, I will display FormB. And so forth.

How do I accomplish this? Which controls do I use to display FormA, FormB, ... within Form1?

In VB6, I used a 3rd Party Splitter control and assigned the FormA.hwnd to a Pane of my Splitter control within Form1.

Thanks,

Vince.

**eclipsed4utoo** · 01-12-2009, 10:32 PM

create the different forms to have whatever controls you want. Then create a new instance of the form, and show it.

**Hack** · 01-13-2009, 09:03 AM

On the rare occasion I need to display one form within another, I used a frame, and put the other form inside that.

**vaidee325** · 01-14-2009, 09:21 AM

HI Vinny,

In VS 2008, you dont need to display multiple forms. You can use the panel controls to put controls within it and hide and display the appropriate panels.