Special Edition Using Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET

Creating the Child Form Template

Now that you have created the parent form, let’s continue by creating a template for the child form. In essence, we will be creating a child form class at design time; later, at runtime, the application will create instances of the child form class as necessary.

The child form template will contain a single TextBox control whose properties are set to cause it to completely fill the form.

To create the child form template, follow these steps:

1.	Select Project, Add Windows Form from the Visual Basic .NET menu system. Name the form frmChild before clicking Open.
2.	Drag a MainMenu control to frmChild, and create the File menu and its submenu items as follows: Name Text Shortcut mnuFile File   mnuFileSave Save ...