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• John Thompson

  Posted on Dec 1, 2010 (permalink)

  Is it possible to open a windows form in an already existing tab?  I have predefined tabs in a DocumentTabStip and I want to open a windows form inside of the tab when the tab is selected.
  
  Doing the following will fill the existing tab and create a new blank tab, but I just want to fill the existing tab.  I'm sure I'm missing something simple here, but have been struggling for some time.  If I eliminate the second line, I get an error.
  
   

  Dim myForm As New Form1()

  Me.DocumentWindow1.DockManager.DockControl(myForm, DocumentWindow1, DockPosition.Fill) 

    

  DocumentWindow1.Controls.Add(myForm) 

    

    

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

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• Stefan Stefan

  Posted on Dec 6, 2010 (permalink)

  Hello John,
  
  Thank you for writing.
  
  Please refer to the following code snippet which demonstrates how can you add a form to an existing DocumentWindow:
  

  Dim myForm As New Form()

  myForm.BackColor = Color.Red

  myForm.Dock = DockStyle.Fill

  myForm.TopLevel = False

  'the next line removes the form's title bar

  myForm.FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None

  myForm.Show()

  Me.DocumentWindow1.Controls.Add(myForm)

  
  I hope this information helps. If there is anything else I can assist you with, do not hesitate to contact me.
  
  All the best,
  Stefan
  the Telerik team

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• John Thompson

  Posted on Dec 6, 2010 (permalink)

  Perfect, exactly what I needed to know.  Works great.  Thanks a lot!

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• Damián

  Posted on Oct 13, 2011 (permalink)

  Could i do this inside a RadDock tab?
  Thanks in advance

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• Nikolay Nikolay

  Posted on Oct 18, 2011 (permalink)

  Hi Damián,

  Could you please clarify your requirement? The code snippet of my colleague Stefans does just this - it inserts a Form object into an existing DocumentWindow in RadDock. If this is not what you are looking for, please describe your case in details. This will allow us to think of a solution that will be helpful for your case.
  
  Thank you for your cooperation.

  All the best,
  Nikolay
  the Telerik team

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• Damián

  Posted on Oct 18, 2011 (permalink)

  Thanks Nikolai for attending my problem. We are from Uruguay and we are looking for a pool of controls that can easily integrate the new version of our main product. I've using your components(trial version) and i faced with the next issue:
  
  I have a main form with a raddock that opens tabs to show diffrent parts of the application or sub applications (something like a web explorer).
  I wonder if I can open, in these tabs, modal forms that only disables the tab that contain them.
  
  Sorry about my english.
  
  pd. I solved the previous problem (open a form inside a tab) with the following code:
  
  Dim host As HostWindow = RadDock1.DockControl(frm, Telerik.WinControls.UI.Docking.DockPosition.Right)
          host.DockState = Telerik.WinControls.UI.Docking.DockState.Floating
  
  Thank you again, regards
  Damián Hernandez
  
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• Nikolay Nikolay

  Posted on Oct 20, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Damián,

  I am glad that you manage to find the solution to your previous question.
  
  However, I am not sure I understand your new requirement as well. Let's say that you add a form to a DockWindow in RadDock. How the tab of the window that contains the form should be disabled?

  All the best,
  Nikolay
  the Telerik team

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• Peter Stanford

  Posted on Apr 25, 2012 (permalink)

  Hi Stefan,
  
  I've just come across this post while searching for a similar solution. I appreciate that the post is old and may be out of date but I'm using the latest version of WinForms Controls (Q1 2012, Vers: 321?), Visual Studio 2010 and VB.net. I'm trying to do the following (all the controls are Telerik Rad controls, not native Windows controls):
  

   

  1.  I've created a RadRibbonForm and placed a radDock control on it
  2. In the RadDock I've added a Tool Window and a Document Window
  3. In the DocumentWindow I've placed a RadCarousel and added several items to it
  4. At runtime when I click one of the items in the carousel (rbeCustomers), I want to create a new document window (this part works correctly)
  5. In the new document window I want to place a new instance of a form

  What I can't find is how to asign this form to the document window because the new document window (DocumentWindow99 in this example) doesn't appear in the list of controls if I use the syntax Me.DocumentWindow99.Controls.Add(Customer_Management).
  
  I could create the documet windows at design time but I really want to create them dynamically at run time. Any assistance would be greatle appreciated.
  
  Thanks and best regards
  
  Here's the code I'm using:

   

   

   

   

  Private Sub rbeCustomers_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles rbeCustomers.Click

      With RadDock1

          Dim DocumentWindow99 As DocumentWindow = New DocumentWindow

          DocumentWindow99.Text = "Customers"

          .AddDocument(DocumentWindow99)

      End With

      Dim Customer_Management As New Customer_Management

      With Customer_Management

          .Dock = DockStyle.Fill

          .TopLevel = False

          .FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None

          .Show()

      End With

  End Sub

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• Nikolay Nikolay

  Posted on Apr 30, 2012 (permalink)

  Hello Peter,

  Thank you for writing.
  
  You should set a meaningful Name property to the DocumentWindow when creating it. You can then get the window from the DockWindows collection, for example:

  Private Sub RadButton1_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadButton1.Click

      With RadDock1

          Dim DocumentWindow99 As DocumentWindow = New DocumentWindow

          DocumentWindow99.Text = "Customers"

          DocumentWindow99.Name = "Customers"

          .AddDocument(DocumentWindow99)

      End With

      Dim f As New Form

      With f

          .BackColor = Color.Green

          .Dock = DockStyle.Fill

          .TopLevel = False

          .FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None

          .Show()

      End With

   

      Me.RadDock1.DockWindows("Customers").Controls.Add(f)

  End Sub

  
  I hope this helps.Kind regards,
  Nikolay
  the Telerik team

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