VS 2008 Making A Form To Child Form

Sep 28, 2010

1) I m very new to VB.NEt 2008. I have placed a MDI Form in my project and a Form too. I want to make the form to a Child Form of MDI. is there any property or how can it possible.

2) I want to set the lable back color to Transparent but found no property.

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The problem is that when I increase the size of the form all I get is more blank space on the screen. The controls to do change at all. Although I thin this is normal behavior for a Windows form my bosses all seem to think that the controls resize on every other widows for they see. I wondered if anyone had successfully accomplished this. I was already advised to write a FormResize handling subroutine and this unfortunately did not work.

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I have an issue when I place a label box in the MDI Parent form and then open a child form the label box highlighted in child form?

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VB 2008 - Change Child Form Combo Box From MdiParent Form

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In VB 2008, I have a Parent form with a combo box on it. There is a child form also with a combo box on it. I want to be able to change the values on the child form based on what the user selected from the main form. The user launches the child form from a toolbar on the Parent form. The following code is run:

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What I want to do is if the Parent's combo box has "Red", "Blue", "Green" values and the user selects "Green", the child form's combo box(With the same values) will also change to "Green". (I do not need to change the Parent form if the child form changes.) I've tried changing the Child's combobox from the combobox's change event on the Parent form, and the code runs, but nothing changes on the child form.

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VS 2008 Populating Cbobox On Form Load For A Child Form?

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i am having an issue populating two combo boxes on form load. The program will connect to an access database and pull data as instructed. Then as it pulls each record it puts it into the combo box.

This was working.. atleast i think it was. i dont recall it ever not working, however i wasn't looking for it.

My problem is that if when i load the MDI parent form and have it skip the selection form and the login form and load the next form in the sequence, it loads everything perfectly. However if the select form is loaded first, then the login form and then the form i need loaded, it will not populate. The only difference between the two different loads is that the login form calls a function that loads the form as a new project.form

I did this so that I can have multiple forms open at a time. I am assuming my problem is that I need to get the child forms handle then populating controls using that handle? but i think if I had to do that then I would beable to populate the comboboxes on the first form load using the login method of opening the form.

Here's my code.

vb.net
Private Sub frmLine1t5_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Me.Text = "Line " & LineNumber & " Test Form"

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I'm having trouble with MDI child and a dialog form. The problem details are listed below:

1. One MDI Parent form (Form1) with a button on it (Button1).

2. One Child form of Form1 (name = Form2) with a button (Button2) and a textbox (text_box1).

3. Another form in the project (not child of Form1 and not MDI Parent) with name Form3. This form has also a button on it (Button3).

The application behaviour is as follows: the application starts with Form1. Clicking the Button1 will show Form2. Form2 correctly opened as a MDI child. Clicking the Button2 on the Form2 will show Form3 as dialog (Form3.ShowDialog() ). Clicking the Button3 on the Form3 need to do the magical thing - to set/change the text in the Form2's text_box1.

Tried various examples from this forum. Also followed a lot of examples from net. Nothing works. Tried to create a writable property in the Form2 class but calling it from the Form3 does nothing.

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VS 2008 [RESOLVED] Making Form Invisible?

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Here is the pertinent part of my code:

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
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Private
Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender
As System.Object,

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FORM 1
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