combining forms in VB.net

[TLawson]

I've built three little nifty database manipulation programs with vb.net and would like to integrate all three into a single program.. maybe tabs on a form.. or icons on a form that pops up the appropiate form, any idea how to do this without starting from scratch and rebuilding all my dataconnectors and dbcommands?

Thanks

[BryanJ]

There are many different ways to do this but a suggestion is...

Convert the three projects to class library projects.

Create a new project that will serve as the Main App and set the references to the class libraries.

Add the tab pages and in each page add a panel. You can launch one of the old apps in the panel using . . .

dim frm as new MyoldForm()
frm.TopLevel = false
frm.Dock = DockStyle.Fill
Panel1.Controls.Add(frm)
frm.show


Hope that will help.