Is there a way to stop a MDI container form from showing scroll bars? I've tried setting its autoscroll to false but they're still shown.

I've got round the problem using Dock - I guess I should have used it in the first place! VB.net certainly makes life a whole lot easier than VB6.

Dock sounds like a reasonable workaround.

Unfortunately I don't know of an easy way to turn off the MDI scrollbars. They are not the same kind of control as normal scrollbars and VB doesn't give you a handle to them.

You might be able to pull the MDI child form's client area into another control used as an MDI parent. For example, the following links lead to examples that build tabbed MDI parents instead of parents that use scrollbars.

http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB...bs/article.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/MDITabControl.asp

None of these are easy, though.

Rod
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Author of "Visual Basic 2005 Programmer's Reference"
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