How to Inherit a MDI form in .NET?

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What is the best way to create an inherited MDI form without duplicating the menu groups?

If you just inherit your MID_Children from your MID_Parent, your MDI_Children will have 2 menu groups. How to avoid that?
The reason for that is the fact that I have multiple applications that have the same MID features, but the menu has more items than the parent.

Has someone ever done that already?

Posted 25-May-11 4:08am

Giulliano Rodrigues

Updated 25-May-11 4:09am

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Yvan Rodrigues · Answer 1 · 2011-05-26T14:00:00

Solution 1

So are you trying to achieve:

             +--> MDI_Child
             |   
MDI_Parent --+--> MDI_Child
             |
             +--> MDI_Child

or

             +--> MDI_Child --> MDI_Child
             |   
MDI_Parent --+
             |
             +--> MDI_Child

?

Posted 26-May-11 14:00pm

Yvan Rodrigues

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Giulliano Rodrigues 27-May-11 8:36am

Hi Yvan, I am trying the option two.

Yvan Rodrigues 27-May-11 9:20am

And so you would like to know how you can make the inherited MDI_child have the menu items of the base class, plus its own items without duplicating the items from the base class?

Giulliano Rodrigues 27-May-11 9:35am

You bet Yvan! This is exactly what I need to do.

Giulliano Rodrigues 27-May-11 9:38am

I believe that "eventually" some manual intervention can be required in order to merge the parent menu with children one.