creating an outlook style app... how!?

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   hi all
this seems to be a very common need, but i cannot find a solution. i am creating a typical outlook style application.... one with a navigation control on the left, and a client area on the right.
based on what is clicked on the left, the appropriate form displays on the right.
how in the world do i this?
is the answer to have a docking pane on the left and one on the right... and have the right one fixed? (ie no caption, not hideable, not closeable)
is the answer to have a tab control on the right? and have all the forms loaded into the tabs? i would need to hide the tab captions, of course... possible?
what's the elegant way to solve this? there is a control made by infragistics that provided for this.... the right hand pane was filled with a form whose hwnd property was bound to the left hand side treeview. you click on the node, the right form shows up. nobody else seems to have bottled up this solution so nicely.
dushan bilbija

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dbilbija Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 08 March 2006 Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote dbilbija Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: creating an outlook style app... how!? Posted: 09 March 2006 at 12:10pm
	hi all this seems to be a very common need, but i cannot find a solution. i am creating a typical outlook style application.... one with a navigation control on the left, and a client area on the right. based on what is clicked on the left, the appropriate form displays on the right. how in the world do i this? is the answer to have a docking pane on the left and one on the right... and have the right one fixed? (ie no caption, not hideable, not closeable) is the answer to have a tab control on the right? and have all the forms loaded into the tabs? i would need to hide the tab captions, of course... possible? what's the elegant way to solve this? there is a control made by infragistics that provided for this.... the right hand pane was filled with a form whose hwnd property was bound to the left hand side treeview. you click on the node, the right form shows up. nobody else seems to have bottled up this solution so nicely. dushan bilbija

gshawn Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 04 October 2004 Status: Offline Points: 227	Post Options Post Reply Quote gshawn Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 March 2006 at 1:09pm
	Did you check the Outlook sample that ships with the Xtreme Suite install?

tobi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 09 September 2004 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 451	Post Options Post Reply Quote tobi Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 March 2006 at 1:55pm
	Hi ! I had same problem and solved it with a mdi application. I�ve put a docking pane on the left containing the "navigation" controls. On the main area I�ve put multiple mdi forms without control boxes. Depending on the navigation controls I show or hide the corresponding mdi form. I don�t know if this is the best way - but I don�t know any other ...