Winforms navigation options

The term "navigation" has limited scope, much narrower than the class of Forms application. That is, the whole idea of navigation is not always applicable to application designs. One example (even more limiting): a wizard. Menu is much more universal, but there can be a big number of other options. One of them: an instance of ListBox or TreeView: when you go from note to node (list item to list item), right part of window show different content. This is a pretty elegant option. It could be used in two or more stages: a content on right can also have another navigation element showing content of far right. You don't need any special components to implement it, you can do it all with your own hands right away.

You could use many other designs. One typical example, not elegant at all, actually very ugly but popular in beginners: a set of buttons, a click on such button opens this or that. (Don't do it, of course. This was just for an example.)

One really trivial and also limited case convenient for as number of simper application is TabControl.

And look at Visual Studio. This is a combination of main and context menus with trees like Solution Explorer and PropertyGrid. You can implement such design, too.

—SA