I am in the process of developing an MDI application in VB.NET (2005). Anyway, my child form's refuse to center the parent forms bounds. I have tried setting the 'startposition' via the properties menu. I have also tried setting the 'startposition' with code in the parent form's load procedure. Here is the code I used.

frmMain.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterParent

Note: frmMain is the name of the child form. Whenever I run the application, the child form is loading in the default upper-left hand corner of it's parent form.

If anybody has a possible solution, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks for any help.

B.H.

You need to define the StartPosition for the child form and not for the parent form. You example shows 'frmMain' being changed where it needs to be 'frmChild' or whatever you have called it.

Hope that helps,
Phil Wright
http://www.componentfactory.com
Free UI controls for .NET2

You need to define the StartPosition for the child form and not for the parent form. You example shows 'frmMain' being changed where it needs to be 'frmChild' or whatever you have called it.

Hope that helps,
Phil Wright
http://www.componentfactory.com
Free UI controls for .NET2

It seems a little confusing, but "frmMain" is the name of the child form. I provided the code that I attempted to use to set the child form in place. I have my parent form as being named "frmMdi".

I do realize the difference between the parent and child forms. I hope this helps to clarify the difficulty I am having.

Thanks again for your time,

Brad Heath

Form.Show does not seem to bother looking at whatever is present in the FormStartPosition. If you use ShowDialog instead that would position it correctly.

I've used the Form.SetDesktopLocation() method in the FormLoad event to place the form where I want it to get around these problems