[RESOLVED] Visual Studio 2010 - need to have multiple screens under one window

[simpleonline1234]

Hey guys,

I'm programming an application that is going to have a main screen with a slew of menu items in a menu bar at the top of the main window.

What I want to do is have a main screen with the menu items at the top and then when I click on a new menu item I want to have the application open the window inside the same area and not an entirely new window.

I know that sounds rather confusing but I am currently trying this using a Tab Control but I get the tabs at the top.

Any other way to have multiple paned windows inside a single window?

The best way I can compare this would be when programming a website where the frames are nested inside the main page and only the viewing pane changes but the rest of the page remains the same.

[Shaggy Hiker]

What you are describing is an MDI application. You have one parent window with a variety of child windows underneath it. You might do some searching on MDI. It has been around for well over a decade, yet it is not a design I have used very often (exactly once, actually).

[simpleonline1234]

Cool beans..thanks Shaggy Hiker.