activating mdi child

[digita]

I have created an mdi form, both parent and child. Now i want to add some navigation, I already have the tile horizontally en verticaly. Now i want to make something like there is in Microsoft Word, that means that you can select a certain document and then give it focus.

I mean like this:

You can select the document on the bottom, and if there were a second document there was an entry Document2.
But how do I do that?

 

[JohnH]

Create a new menu item on the MenuStrip and name it for example "Window". Select the MenuStrip and assign the MdiWindowListItem property.

 

[digita]

Thanks!
Now i have another question: is there also a way to activate an mdi child through code e.g. clicking a button or tab.
I'm using mdi to load other forms and I display them in tabs. I prevented that they can be opened more than once, but now I to activate the mdi child when the form is opened.
So, is there somekind of method or action?

 

[JohnH]

If your reference to the form instance is 'f' you can call f.Activate()

 

[Administrator]

I believe it's the "Select" method.

My.Forms.FormName.Select