Show Form A on Form B

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I have a problem, I want to show Form A in Form B and access Form A controls on Form B without opening Form A up? Please Help

Posted 8-Feb-12 6:23am

KRImmELS

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Kschuler 8-Feb-12 12:26pm

Could you explain more? What do you mean show Form A in Form B? You want the entire form to display inside another form? Or do you want another instance of Form A to appear? Why wouldn't you want to just show Form A? Perhaps there is a better way to accomplish the task, and we could help you if you explained more about what you are trying to do.

BillWoodruff 8-Feb-12 21:14pm

"access Form A controls on Form B without opening Form A up?" this makes no sense: please explain what you are trying to do here. By "opening up" Form A: do you mean accessing Form A controls when they are not visible, because, even though you've created Form A in Form B, and set Form B to be Form A's parent: you have never called 'Show on Form A.

What possible purpose could be served by accessing "invisible controls" ?

[no name] 9-Feb-12 1:44am

plz clarify your question...i didnt understan what is your requirements...

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Solution 3

Hi,

You may visit this link http://www.codeincsharp.blogspot.com/search/label/MDIForm

I hope this one can help you.

Thank You.

Posted 8-Feb-12 17:57pm

SayreCC

Solution 4

Hi,

You may visit this link http://www.codeincsharp.blogspot.com/search/label/MDIForm

I hope this one can help you.

Thank You.

Posted 8-Feb-12 17:57pm

SayreCC

Solution 1

I want to display the whole of Form A in a place in Form B, Form B is my main Form and want to show Form A in Form B to access data and edit data on Form A without showing form A as a new form, it's something new to me.

Posted 8-Feb-12 6:56am

KRImmELS

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Silent Guardian 8-Feb-12 14:09pm

add explanation of question in comment area not in solution area

Dave Kreskowiak 8-Feb-12 16:12pm

That is a horrible design. You say you want to "display the whole of Form A" inside Form B. OK, not something I would do because Form A will be movable inside Form B and work exactly like it was on its own.

A better option would be to make a user control or set of controls that can be used by both Form B and Form A without having Form A try to perform the tasks of both a seperate form and a control on another form.

Solution 2

u can achieve it by using .hide() and .show() method of each form.

create a new thread for the new form if u want both forms to work asynchronously.

Posted 8-Feb-12 8:12am

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ralphlee1 · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-08T18:56:00

Solution 5

add a Button (button1) and a Panel (panel1) on your main form.
FormA is that as you said.
add following code on button1.click event.

C#

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    FormA frm = new FormA();
    frm.TopLevel = false;
    frm.Parent = this.panel1;
    frm.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
    frm.Show();
}

is this what you want?

Posted 8-Feb-12 18:56pm

ralphlee1

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KRImmELS 9-Feb-12 11:06am

Yes that is exactly what I want thank you so much