Find bounds of viewable area in MDI form

[infimo]

I have an MDI form in which I load child forms. I need to resize the child forms to fit the entire dimensions of the internal viewable area of the MDI form. How can I find this?

If I set the width and height of the MDI form to say, 800 and 600 respectively, the internal viewable area is always lesser (maybe something like 792 and 573).

I was wondering if there's a way to find these bounds in a generic way?

Well, basically I just want to fill up the child form inside the MDI form. But, setting the Startup state to "Maximized" causes some other problems for me.

Thanks in advance.

Infimo

 

[jonbatts]

Check out thread796-1079615

 

[RiverGuy]

Can't you still do a Me.WindowState = WindowState.Maximized?