How to use single MDI Child Form for all Crystal reports

[kedarrkulkarni]

Hello all,
I have MDI Application in which i am displaying crystal reports.
For that i have created a mdi child form. in which ReportViewer control is used to display reports.
Now in my app, there would be many reports. so, do i need to create that many chile mdi forms and add reportviewer in all these forms?
or else can i use single form and reportviewer to disaply all forms?
and if yes.... how?
because it is MDI application, it wont allow me to open multiple instances of single form. but, user may want to view multiple reports without closing other.
any idea?
Thanx.......!

[Deepak Sakpal]

You can open multiple instances of a single form in MDI form. Below is some sample code where Form3 is a MDI parent form and Form1 is a MDI Child form.

Public Class Form3

    Private Sub Form3_Load( _
        ByVal sender As System.Object, _
        ByVal e As System.EventArgs _
    ) Handles MyBase.Load

        Dim frm1 As New Form1
        frm1.MdiParent = Me
        frm1.Show()

        Dim frm2 As New Form1
        frm2.MdiParent = Me
        frm2.Show()
    End Sub

End Class

To show multiple reports, just create a single form with ReportViewer control, create multiple objects of this form and provide the necessary details to load the reports. That's the way how it should be done.