HEEEELP!!! Dockable Forms in VB.NET

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simchajoy2000

Hi,

This is a scary question but I have not been able to find any helpful
information in previous newsgroup postings or books. So you are my
only hope!!

I need to make what I believe are called dockable forms in vb.net. I
need a form that can reside in the left-hand side of my main form
without moving unless the user performs an action that tells it to
pick up and move wherever and whenever the user wants it to. I am
very new to the world of programming user interfaces so I have no idea
of how to even attempt this - can someone HELP me!!?

Joy
 
Hi,

This is a scary question but I have not been able to find any helpful
information in previous newsgroup postings or books. So you are my
only hope!!

I need to make what I believe are called dockable forms in vb.net. I
need a form that can reside in the left-hand side of my main form
without moving unless the user performs an action that tells it to
pick up and move wherever and whenever the user wants it to. I am
very new to the world of programming user interfaces so I have no idea
of how to even attempt this - can someone HELP me!!?

Joy
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I would use a third party component... I use the devexpress barmanager
component myself.

I've never even attempted to do this on my own. Seems like to much of a
waste of time when there are several good 3rd party tools that take care
of the details... Reinventing the wheel and all that :)
 
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This is a scary question but I have not been able to find any helpful
information in previous newsgroup postings or books. So you are my
only hope!!

I need to make what I believe are called dockable forms in vb.net. I
need a form that can reside in the left-hand side of my main form
without moving unless the user performs an action that tells it to
pick up and move wherever and whenever the user wants it to. I am
very new to the world of programming user interfaces so I have no idea
of how to even attempt this - can someone HELP me!!?
Click to expand...

<URL:http://www.infragistics.com/>
<URL:http://www.dotnetmagic.com/>
<URL:http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/>
<URL:http://www.devexpress.com/>

Some other useful components:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/>

VS 2005 will include Office 2003 style menus and toolbars etc.
 
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