Creating child window

[S O S]

How can I create a form as a child window of another form?

[Furty]

Assuming your child form is called Form2, and this code is being called from another form: Form2 form2 = new Form2(); form2.Parent = this; // form2 is now a child of this form // show form 2 Or, if Form2 is to be displayed as a dialog box: Form2 form2 = new Form2(this) // show form 2

[S O S]

Well, method 1 gives me:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in system.windows.forms.dll

Additional information: Cannot add a top level control to a control.

And neither my own form nor the System.Windows.Forms.Form class has a (Form) constructor...

[Arun Bhalla]

Set the new Form's TopLevel property to false before you make it Visible or Show() it.

[S O S]

Thanks! That worked. However, the window is created with the WS_CHILD style, which makes it be "inside" the main window. This I do not want. How can I make it not use the WS_CHILD style, but still have the main window as its parent? I don't see any place to specify the window styles manually...

[Arun Bhalla]

Hmm, also try TopMost = true; in addition to TopLevel = false;