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This is probably a stupid question, but I can't seem to find any information on it.

ANyway, how do you create the type of UI seen in many products where there are several buttons on the left, and they swap forms contained in a pane on the right? Is it swapping panel controls? Somehow loading child forms from an object? I'm just trying to make sure that it's not something obvious that I have missed (seeing as how new I am to windows forms) that really isn't as complicated as I might think.

Thanks in advance!
MigrationUser 1  Thursday, November 06, 2003 7:55 PM
You're on the right track.  You need to manage the different views and show them depending on what button the user clicks.  Here are a couple of links to articles about how to set up an application with a good Document-View architecture, so that you can easily manage this type of functionality.

- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwinforms/html/reaworapps1.asp?frame=true
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwinforms/html/reaworapps2.asp?frame=true
MigrationUser 1  Friday, November 07, 2003 12:29 PM

You can use google to search for other answers

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