Hide and Show Control in Windows Forms?:

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I have a window form application with MdiParent Form and some Option in menu strip like
Details Data Entry and Important Data Entry. What i did in this i make a simple Data Entry Form first and now i want when i select Details Data Entry Option from Menu Strip it shows full Data Entry From and when i choose other one option (Important Data Entry) it shows the same form but Hide the Extra Details Option and Only Shows Essential Details.

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Ashish Dhiman

Posted 17-May-13 18:31pm

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Mayur Panchal · Answer 1 · 2013-05-17T18:55:00

I suggest you to use TableLayoutPanel container to design your form. This will allow you to do what you want to do.
You can set Visible property to True/False as required.

Currently, when you hide some controls from your form it will be blank space at that location. but when you use TableLayoutPanel and set row/columns autosized, it will be collapsed and fill the blank spaces between controls.

You can refer below links :
http://www.programcall.com/28/csnet/winform-tablelayout-panel.aspx[^]

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/mahesh/tablelayoutpanel-in-C-Sharp/[^]

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2013-05-17T19:38:00

Here is the idea: who needs MDI, ever? Why torturing yourself and scaring off your users?
Do yourself a great favor: do not use MDI at all. You can do much easier to implement design without it, with much better quality. MDI is highly discouraged even by Microsoft, in fact, Microsoft dropped it out of WPF and will hardly support it. More importantly, you will scare off all your users if you use MDI. Just don't. Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface#Disadvantages[^],
How to Create MDI Parent Window in WPF?[^].

I can explain what to do instead. Please see my past answers:
How to Create MDI Parent Window in WPF? [Solution 2],
Question on using MDI windows in WPF[^],
MDIContainer giving error[^],
How to set child forms maximized, last childform minimized[^].

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