hej,

i'm looking for a solution to control multiplie user controls by clicking on on an item in the navbar, located at the left side
of the screen.

I can handle the NavBar, that's fine. Writing a Click Event for
each item in the NavBar seems to be the most convinient solution to
call a user control and display it alongside the navbar.

The problem: So far i simply dragged all my user controls on the form
and worked with the "visible" proprety

private void navItemAdresses_LinkClicked(object sender, MyNavbar.NavBarLinkEventArgs e)
{
usercontrol.Visible = true;
usercontrol1.Visible = false;
....
}

That's a really s... solution. Can anyone suggest me a better one?

As bad as it might seem, that's how you do it!

If your navbar has some state property you can test off of then you could simplify it a little bit:

usercontrol.Visible = navTabs.SelectedTab == 1;
usercontrol1.Visible = navTabs.SelectedTab == 2;

You can put this in the page prerender event handler so you don't have to wire in all the tests to the tab onclick methods. This is usually how I approach multi-mode pages.

-Peter

well, it seems to be an easy solution, but consider
that the user launches a series of user controls by
clicking on the items in the navbar.

I looked on the web and discovered that there is a BringToFront()
mehtod. But it didn't work, because i need to determine which
user controls have a "visibility= true" and apply the mehtod
SetToBack() or set the visibility to false to all of them (all user controls which status is actually true)

Any idea how to implement this?

This is a winforms application? My initial reply was with the thinking it was webforms. I'm not sure what the best way is in a winforms environment.

-Peter

I'm sorry, that i didn't clearly mention that it is a windows forms
application.