VS.NET C# and Abstract Classes

[Guest Brody]

I'm in the middle of writing a Smartphone application in VS.NET using

C# that uses multiple forms. Seeing as each form's navigation menu is

pretty much the same i made the obvious decision to reduce code

duplication by including an abstract class. Now this class is the

parent obviously and each form is a child of it. My problem lies here

as each form automatically inherits from System.Windows.Forms.Form and

multiple inheritnece is naturally not allowed so how do i inherit from

the Forms class and my own? I have tried making my own class inherit

from the Forms class and then having each actual form inherit from my

class thus inheriting the Forms class in a roundabout way but the form

designer throws up a bug if a form does not directly inherit from the

System.Windows.Forms.Form class so i'm stuck! There must be an obvious

way around this but i'm not able to see it at the moment!

Can anyone help me?

[Guest Brody]

FYI it seems the way to program is to have a main form that spawns all other forms as children...

[Guest NeilC_MVP]

Go read this and Chris Tacke's article that it links to on MSDN. This can be applied to the Smartphone platform as well as Windows CE and Pocket PC.