Metro UI C#: How do you make a form within a form?

Question

I want to know how to open different forms with a single main parent form in Metro Framework UI similar to a Modern POS System. As far as I know, I haven't found anything remotely close to that in the internet and I'm also having trouble trying to figure it out in Metro. Also I'm not talking about MDI Forms

Here's an example: (not in Metro) Modern POS Design (watch first few seconds of the vid)

I'm talking about a dashboard type of UI where you open different modules using buttons on the left side of the Main form and the modules are opened as a child form in the Main form.

Answer 1

It has so many bugs when it comes to that kind of procedure. You can just use a simple form rather that MetroForm because MetroForm creates a somewhat black form on your screen when calling as child form. I don't know if it just in my application but it is really annoying.

You can just add your other forms to a panel at your main form.

There are many tutorials on how to do this but i will give you an example. I created a method something like this in my utilclass:

public static Form NewForm(Form myForm, Panel myPanel)
    {
        myForm.TopLevel = false;
        myForm.AutoScroll = true;
        myForm.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;

        myPanel.Controls.Clear();
        myPanel.Controls.Add(myForm);

        myForm.Show();
        return myForm;
    }

then calling from Main form to a panel:

Form2 myForm2 = new Form2();
UtilClass.NewForm(myForm2 , [YourMainFormPanel]);

I know this code is not the best approach but I'm just giving you ideas.