How to show A Form in openfiledialog?

[Pawan Kiran]

Hi I have 11 Forms in my app. In Form1 (Ismdicontainer=true) i have 9 buttons when i click on each button i want to open a new form (Mdiparent as Form1) Inside each form i created some folders and gridviews.. in Form11 i have openfiledialog.. now i want to open Form1 inside the Openfiledialog to select the files which i have with me... Thanks in advance..

[Mycroft Holmes]

Openfiledialog is a winforms dialog, you have very limited control over it, you certainly can;t "open form1 inside the dialog"

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

[OriginalGriff]

That turns out not to be the case, sort of. You can extend the OpenFileDialog[^] to incorporate whatever you want, which could include thumbnails of existing forms, or buttons to refer to existing forms. I have used this to extend it for viewing templates, etc. many times in the past. I would agree that trying to include an existing form inside a open dialog is a bit daft, though!

You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy

[OriginalGriff]

You can't include an existing form that is being displayed inside a OpenFileDialog, but you can extend the OpenFileDialog to include the controls that are inside your form. See here[^]

You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy

[Pawan Kiran]

I have seen this kind of functionality in M-Files Application... For more information look into Site: Google (search for M-Files). Thanks & Regards Pawan.