Hi Arjun,

>Hi all
>My App is an MDI Parent with MDI Child forms.
>One of the child forms calls a modal dialog form.
>I would like the modal dialog form to be INSIDE the mdi parent window.
>
>I am not bothered about any of the other things associated with MDI
>Parent/Child relationships, this is purely an appearance issue.
>MDIParent property and ShowDialog seem to be mutually exclusive.
>
>Surely some bright sparks knows how this is achieved.

You are going to struggle with this since the Form you want to call with ShowDialog is being called from a child Mdi Form. In other words it is not a top level form. You may be able to do some trickery if you can drop the child form some how first and call the modal form and then when it is released, bring the child form back. Otherwise, why not just call the modal form as a regular Modal form? Since it is Modal not much a user can do with it different if it was inside a Mdi Parent.
Tim