How do I dynamically embed a winform subform into the tab control of a main winform?

Question

Is there a way that I can hand a Winforms form object to a main form containing a tab control, and have the main form load this form object into one of the tabs?

An additional wrinkle: the form object will be instantiated from a different thread than the main form.

Answer 1

I don't think it will work when the Forms are created on different threads, but you would normally do this by setting the Form's TopLevel property to False and then adding it to the tab page control (or any other parent control).

Edit: You also need to set the Visible property to True because Forms are hidden by default.

Also, I just tried this and it does work for something like a button created from another thread. But when I did it with a Form, I got an InvalidOperationException.

Answer 2

Do you want something like Multi Document Interface (MDI) tab page browsing?