Control Nesting Limits in WinForms

Question

I'm creating my form's controls in the runtime, and for some reason, I need the depth to be more than 49 nested controls (i.e. control is contained in another one).

but the following error appears:

Exception

How can I add more controls nested in each other ?

Here is a little piece of code that may reproduce the error:

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        Panel lastPanel = panel1;
        for (int i = 0; i < 49; i++)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(i);
            Panel newPanel = new Panel();
            lastPanel.Controls.Add(newPanel);
            lastPanel = newPanel;
        }
    }
}

" I need the depth to be more than 49 nested controls " - do you really? — Mitch Wheat, Aug 05 '13 at 14:16

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 05 '13 at 14:18

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According to Raymond Chen you cannot, it was a deliberate decision on the part of the windows executive developers.

answered Aug 05 '13 at 14:18

Mgetz

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Thank you for the confirmation. I have encountered this exact issue in one component of our company's application. – KyleK Feb 05 '14 at 22:37

Control Nesting Limits in WinForms

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