Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Instantiating Windows at Runtime

Creating and displaying windows at runtime is a common task in every client application. To accomplish this you simply create an instance of a System.Windows.Window and then invoke the Show or ShowDialog methods, depending if the Window must be considered a modal dialog or not. The following Visual Basic code demonstrates how you create and show a new Window:

In the preceding code a new Window is generated from scratch, so this requires specifying all properties. In most cases you can instead create and show instances of existing windows that you implemented at design time; for this, in the above code you just ...