Adding common controls to every form

[peroxide]

Hi people,

I'm developing a program for school, and I need help with windows forms.
I have several forms in my main program, and I wish to have a unified look for them, including form properties, menustrip, status bars and timers. Do any of you know how I can add all those controls to new forms automatically without having to create a new instance of each in every form?

 

[MattP]

You'll want to check out Visual Inheritance. Below are a couple of articles that came up in a Google search.

Creating Template Forms using Visual Inheritance

Visual Inheritance with Forms

 

[peroxide]

Thanks, I was using VS 2008 Express so I didn't have the Inherited Form option. Solved it by going into each Designer.vb and changing the inheritance to the main template.

Cheers