>In an MDI application, a form with a declared MDIParent cannot be shown modally, I.e. with .ShowDialog(). Leaving the child form as top level and showing it with ShowDialog() allows it to me moved outside the MDI Parent desktop form.
>How do you force an MDI child form to be modal within the application, I.e. within the top level MDI Parent form?
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>Thanks,

Bill,

I'm not sure that I completely understand. Any application, MDI or SDI, cannot be modal. It's the way Windows works. The best you can do is application level modality.

Am I missing something?