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

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 ...