TabControl ?

[Perilous1]

Migrating myself over from VB6 and took an immediate interest in TabControl. I've read a bit on it and learned that it's a container that will display other controls. My question is, what about other Forms? To start with I am simply looking to have multiple forms that are all the same size and open at the same location on the screen so that tabbing through them will appear seamless.

I concede that I am likely missing the bigger picture in using TabControl in this fashion and would appreciate any information about it. Thanks.

 

[Perilous1]

I withdraw the question. Unless I am mistaken, any control at all can be placed within a TabControl container and therefore various tabs can act as the Forms themselves.

 

[RiverGuy]

You can add forms as child controls within a form. You can do this through code easily. The code would look like the following:

        Dim f1 As New Form1
        f1.TopLevel = False
        f1.Show()
        Me.TabControl1.TabPages(0).Controls.Add(f1)

However, I'm not sure you would really want to. If you're simply wanting to use forms to act as containers for other controls, then use a Panel control. You can also create customer UserControls instead of forms. The advantage here is that they will appear in your ToolBox for drag and drop onto your designer.