VB.NET wizard form

Hi all,

I'm writing an app in VB.NET and want it to look and behave like a typical
application wizard (i.e. with the usual Next, Cancel, Back etc). Should I
be looking to use multiple forms or is there a better, cleaner way of doing
it?

Cheers

Paul Taylor

Cyril
Sat Jan 07 09:04:46 CST 2006

Hello Paul,

For this sort of thing I usually use a Panel. Put some controls in it and
set their visibile property to True False to toggle their appearence.

That should do it for you Paul.

Regards
Cyril Gupta

Mick
Sat Jan 07 11:28:10 CST 2006

You can use a TabControl with a minor modification. Just use buttons to
increment/decrement the SelectedIndex of the TabControl.

For the modifications needed for the TabControl see the example on my site
titled "Add a HideTabs property to turn on/off the Tabs"
http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/tabcontrols.html

--
Mick Doherty
http://dotnetrix.co.uk/nothing.html


"Paul Taylor" <paultaylor@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing an app in VB.NET and want it to look and behave like a typical
> application wizard (i.e. with the usual Next, Cancel, Back etc). Should I
> be looking to use multiple forms or is there a better, cleaner way of
> doing it?
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul Taylor
>

Paul
Sat Jan 07 11:49:26 CST 2006

Hi Mick,

Thanks for that, looks like that's the way to go, a fine trick!

Cheers

Paul

"Mick Doherty"
<EXCHANGE#WITH@AND.REMOVE.SQUAREBRACKETS.[mdaudi100#ntlworld.com]> wrote in
message news:OXZ68%236EGHA.2380@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> You can use a TabControl with a minor modification. Just use buttons to
> increment/decrement the SelectedIndex of the TabControl.
>
> For the modifications needed for the TabControl see the example on my site
> titled "Add a HideTabs property to turn on/off the Tabs"
> http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/tabcontrols.html
>
> --
> Mick Doherty
> http://dotnetrix.co.uk/nothing.html
>
>
> "Paul Taylor" <paultaylor@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
> news:43bfb786$0$82662$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm writing an app in VB.NET and want it to look and behave like a
>> typical application wizard (i.e. with the usual Next, Cancel, Back etc).
>> Should I be looking to use multiple forms or is there a better, cleaner
>> way of doing it?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Paul Taylor
>>
>
>

Cyril
Sat Jan 07 21:51:35 CST 2006

Hello Mick

Thanks for the article. I am not using it for the wizard, but it solved an
entirely different problem I was having with the TabControl.

cheers to you.

Cyril Gupta

Mick
Sun Jan 08 04:10:27 CST 2006

Would that problem be that TabPages are not shown when Alignment is not set
to Top and Appearance is not set to Normal? I have updated the example to
fix that too, but my ISP probably won't update the page for a couple of days
so you won't see that yet.

--
Mick Doherty
http://dotnetrix.co.uk/nothing.html


"Cyril Gupta" <nomail@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Mick
>
> Thanks for the article. I am not using it for the wizard, but it solved an
> entirely different problem I was having with the TabControl.
>
> cheers to you.
>
> Cyril Gupta
>