Embedding a winform within a winform (c#)

Question

Is it possible to embed a windows form within another windows form?

I have created a windows form in Visual Studio along with all its associated behaviour.

I now want to create another windows form containing a tab view, and I want to embed the first windows form into the tab view. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Disclaimer

This will work as I am using it in my application extensively. That being said I would pursue the User Control route as depending on how far you carry the embedding things start to flake out. FYI

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Yes this is possible. This is how:

public static void ShowFormInContainerControl(Control ctl, Form frm)
{
    frm.TopLevel = false;
    frm.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
    frm.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
    frm.Visible = true;
    ctl.Controls.Add(frm);
}

I have that in a Class Library and then I call it like so from the FORM I want to embed.

public FrmCaseNotes FrmCaseNotes;
FrmCaseNotes = new FrmCaseNotes();
WinFormCustomHandling.ShowFormInContainerControl(tpgCaseNotes, FrmCaseNotes);

Where tpgCaseNotes is the control I want Form FrmCaseNotes embedded in.
In this case a tab page on the Form I am calling from.