Best Way to have different views base don menu selection?

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C#, Windows forms, basic form and a menu.
I want to display different sets of controls based on the menu choice (so I
want to have different pages of questions based on a user selected menu
choice -- so if I choose A I want to show a label and three textboxes but if
I choose B I want to show a different label and five textboxes).

Like having tabs but instead of a tab I have my menu choice change the
form's appearance and the controls it uses.

I could just do x.Show and x.Hide for all the controls but is there a better
way to do it?

Also there will be a button and some other labels that I would like in
common no matter what menu is selected.

Thanks for any ideas.
 
* "mBird said:
C#, Windows forms, basic form and a menu.
I want to display different sets of controls based on the menu choice (so I
want to have different pages of questions based on a user selected menu
choice -- so if I choose A I want to show a label and three textboxes but if
I choose B I want to show a different label and five textboxes).

Like having tabs but instead of a tab I have my menu choice change the
form's appearance and the controls it uses.

I could just do x.Show and x.Hide for all the controls but is there a better
way to do it?

Also there will be a button and some other labels that I would like in
common no matter what menu is selected.
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You can design different usercontrols which contain the views of the
form. Then you can place these usercontrols on the form and show/hide
or add/remove them.
 
You could put the different sets of controls on separate panels, and the
hide and show the panels. This would simulate a tab control, without the
tabs.
 
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