Question

All, I have a WinForms MDI control and in it I dock several child windows. When I first did this I managed (somehow) to get rid of the window list (shown above the tabbed forms below)

I am not talking about the double window menu (on the right) I know that this is due to a bug in the WinForms control and that if you add MdiChild elements in the Load event instead of the Constructor, this behaviour resolves itsef (see this post for details).

Here I am talking about the menu strip itself, I don’t want it! How do I get rid of it? Any advice is much appreciated…

Note: I am adding MdiChild forms in the following way:

foreach (Form mdiChild in MdiChildForms)
{
    mdiChild.MdiParent = this;
    mdiChild.Show();
}

where MdiChildForms is a List<Form>.

Answer 1

Here is the possible solution:

public MainForm() {
    IsMdiContainer = true;
    InitializeComponent();
    this.MainMenuStrip = new MenuStrip(); // create our own menu strip
    this.MainMenuStrip.Visible = false;   
}