Windows Forms: Using a user control like a container control

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I have developed a simple Windows Forms User Control. I drag and drop this user control on a form. How can I achive, that now I can put further controls from the toolbox dirctly on the user control in the form?

In other words, is it possible to use a user control like a container control?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '10 at 09:16

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is it possible to use a user control like a container control?

No.

You design the UC using its own files.

When you drop an instance of the UC on a Form, that instance is not usable as a Container/Parent.

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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Apparently it is possible...

edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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